I simply reconfigured MySQL.

I created a my.cnf file in /etc with the setting to load the socket to /tmp/mysql.sock

You can find examples in /usr/share/mysql/

Thanks for the information. I have already fixed the issue though.

While I have not found a solution to the issue I did find a work around. Just changing the socket to the old address in my.cnf. But Now I get a authentication error in the protocol this is basically due to the fact that I am using the new hashing passwords. Will PunBB support these new passwords in 1.2.7 or later?

I currently discovered that MySQL socket has been changed from /tmp/mysql.sock to /var/mysql/mysql.sock for security reasons.

Is there any way to modify PunBB to connect to /var/mysql.sock instead of /tmp/mysql.sock?