Solved mariadb not seeing eye to eye with 127.0.0.1 and localhost

[Oclair]

For postfix the only thing working is instead of the default hosts = localhost I have to change it to hosts=127.0.0.1:3306

actually too soon to confirm this

 

[Oclair]

php.ini also can define these
pdo_mysql.default_socket="/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock"
mysqli.default_socket="/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock"

 

[Oclair]

on Libera #maria irc a very kind soul montywi recommended that I set a global environmental variable as root

#sh
#MYSQL_UNIX_PORT=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock
#export MYSQL_UNIX_PORT
#exit

let's see what happens in 2028...