MySQL socket error

Hi I'm having a really big problem at the moment (or at least my server provider is and it's gettting abit tiresome!) I've been using PHP/MySQL combo for a looong time, and never come across this error before, and I don't know exactly what is causing it. There's a new installation of php4.04 pl and MySQL 3-23-39 on red hat, but when I try and run my usual php_connect I get the following error: - Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in testfile.php on line 2 Anyone have any ideas what is causing this (or more to the point how to fix it - is it a configuration file issue, and if so which one?) Thanks Tom --part1_44.171de6dc.293805d8_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I'm having a really big problem at the moment (or at least my server provider is and it's gettting abit tiresome!) I've been using PHP/MySQL combo for a looong time, and never come across this error before, and I don't know exactly what is causing it. There's a new installation of php4.04 pl and MySQL 3-23-39 on red hat, but when I try and run my usual php_connect I get the following error: - Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in testfile.php on line 2 Anyone have any ideas what is causing this (or more to the point how to fix it - is it a configuration file issue, and if so which one?) Thanks Tom (If you reply to me direct, please use tom-mathews@supanet.com , not the borrowed AOL address that this has just been sent from!)