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I remember I had trouble with the socket file on Mandriva 2005. I was able to resolve it using the method here: http://www.tech-recipes.com/mysql_tips762.html on my installation my.cnf is in /etc/my.cnf If you can't get that to work, what about downloading and installing the latest version (5.0) from the MySQL.com website: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html I use MySQL quite a bit with phpmyadmin and programming my own web pages and like how it all works. My code is probably horrible, but it seems to work for me - however, I don't really need to do anything exotic with the data, fortunately. Hope this helps, Mark Harvey On Tuesday 20 Jun 2006 23:00, Paul Weaver wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:05:37PM +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > I found this > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start > > > > I ran it, got the server running OK but still came up with the same > > error message as above when I tried to use the mysql program. > > When you think it's running, type > # ps -ef|grep mysqld > > You might/should have something like > root 4441 1 0 May29 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe > mysql 4478 4441 0 May29 ? 00:04:40 /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 > > In my version/distro (debian), the socket is specified on the command > line > > Is there anything in /var/run/mysqld? > > Alternatively you could use TCP/IP to connect to mysql > # mysql -u root -h localhost > OR (If you specified a root password during install, not sure if you > can) > # mysql -u root -h localhost -p -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html