Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'

Hi Everyone, When trying to connect to MySQL via php, the following error message is displayed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) This is the first time I have seen this error message after a fresh installation. Here's what's been done so far. installed rpm's from mysql.com for RHEL 4AS compiled php 5.0.4 from source ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --enable-discard-path --enable-fastcgi --disable-path-info-check \ --enable-sigchild --enable-magic-quotes --with-openssl --with-zlib \ --enable-calendar --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-zlib-dir \ --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir --with-t1lib --enable-gd-native-ttf \ --with-mysql=/usr --with-readline --with-snmp --with-gd compile apache 2.0.54 (standard compile) copied /usr/share/mysql/my.medium -> /etc/my.conf Verified that socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock PHPinfo reveils the following: Client API version -> 4.1.12 MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE -> external MYSQL_SOCKET -> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock MYSQL_INCLUDE -> -l/usr/include/mysql MYSQL_LIBS -> -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient apache error log: [client 10.70.0.26] PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/test.php on line 5 [root@dunnotar mysql]# ls -lta mysql.sock srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 Jun 21 14:37 mysql.sock [root@dunnotar mysql]# pwd /var/lib/mysql [root@dunnotar mysql]# [root@dunnotar mysql]# netstat -ln | grep mysql unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8541 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [root@dunnotar mysql]# So.. as you can see.. I am stumped.. Any thought or suggestions on where to go from here.. Thanks.. -- Dominique ----- Dominique Démoré Technical Services Coordinator Rainbow District School Board 69 Young Street Sudbury, Ontario P3E 3G5 Tel: (705) 674-3171 x. 258 Fax: (705) 671-2442