RE: [PHP] second try - Mysql php install

If you don't see mysqld running when you do a ps, then the problem is starting mysql... Mysql doesn't report errors in starting up to the terminal... You need to find the log file... The log file should be stored in your ..../mysql/data directory. The logfile should be named [domain].log... So if your machine is called "beef", it would be ..../mysql/data/beef.log Check the end of that file to see why mysql isn't starting... That may answer your question better than we can. Mysql creates the mysql.sock file automatically when it's started. If it isn't in your filesystem, than mysql didn't start. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Guerrier [mailto:dan_guerrier@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:38 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] second try - Mysql php install I'm trying to make php work with mysql but I can't even create a table. I'm receiving this error. [root@menace mysql]# mysqladmin create testdb mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server though socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysq.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket :'/var/lib/mysql/mysq.sock' exists I started mysqld - ps -ef shows that the process is not running The only thing I see that is wrong is that mysql.sock is missing, but I assumed the install or starting the process would create it. It didn't. Shouldn't this file be created by the install And when I use prefix=/software/mysql a mysqld file is placed under /usr/local/bin as well. Am I doing something wrong??? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net