When trying to start a freshly installed MySQL (first time), and then trying to run the daemon, I get these messages in the error.log ... 000822 10:31:04 mysqld started 000822 10:31:04 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 000822 10:31:04 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 000822 10:31:04 Aborting 000822 10:31:05 mysqld ended I think this is a permission problem with creating the *socket*, but which files or config files affect sockets ? # ls -alF total 6 drwxr-x--- 4 mysql root 1024 Aug 10 13:38 ./ drwxr-x--- 12 root root 1024 Aug 13 01:01 ../ -rw-r----- 1 mysql root 1638 Aug 22 10:31 myip.here.com.err drwx--x--- 2 mysql root 1024 Aug 10 13:38 mysql/ drwxr-x--- 2 mysql root 1024 Aug 10 13:38 test/ Thanks... Dan.