Looking for the MySQL socket
root 220 0.0 0.2 27792 884 ?? S Tue12PM 0:00.04 /bin/sh ./bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/Irulan.local.pid
mysql 239 0.0 1.2 62328 6328 ?? R Tue12PM 3:22.34 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-extra-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/my.cnf --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --user=mysql --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/Irulan.local.pid
When in fact what we wanted was mysqladmin -p variables | grep socket