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Neil Winchurst wrote: >> I tried, both as root and as normal user. It still comes back with the >> error message about being unable to connect to the socket. > >> [root@localhost neil]# /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server start & >> Starting MySQL Server [[1] Wrong location in most cases. Best to start from /etc/init.d/ # /etc/init.d/mysql start >> 6190 [root@localhost neil]# OK ] >> [root@localhost neil]# ps aux | grep mysql Looks to me like mysql isn't actually running. $ ps aux | grep mysql should produce: 33:root 2598 0.0 0.4 3480 1204 ? S 11:31 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe 34:mysql 2659 0.0 1.4 129268 3728 ? Sl 11:31 0:01 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock 35:root 2660 0.0 0.1 1788 492 ? S 11:31 0:00 logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i -t mysqld 90:neil 6212 0.0 0.3 3428 804 pts/0 R+ 17:28 0:00 grep -n mysql -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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