Re: Clueless abt Error with MySql
| From: | John Coder | Date: | Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:52:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Clueless abt Error with MySql | ||
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On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:56, Robin Kopetzky wrote:
> Good Evening!
>
> I have installed Mysql from RedHat 8.0 and am having difficulties starting
> mysql. I check the my.cnf file and it appears fine as all files it calls for
> are in the right directories. When I attempt to start mysql, I get a cannot
> connect through mysql.sock. What is causing this or put more simply, where
> did I screw up??
Where is it looking for mysql.sock? I believe with rpm based install it
should be in /var/lib/mysql.
if it's looking in tmp just do a symlink to /tmp/mysql.sock and that
should take care of that prob.
John Coder