Re: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'

[ian douglas]

In my experience, RedHat in their 'wisdom' put mysql.sock in /tmp/ yet 
ships their mysql-server.rpm with a my.cnf pointing at 
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Make the necessary change to /etc/my.cnf to point to /tmp/mysql.sock, or 
change /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql to point to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

-id

Greg Wiggill wrote:
hi,
   having a hack with the whole imp, horde, webmail thing
 
have installed the mysql server and client rpms on redhat8 and just
trying to get started.
 
 
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password password                  
 
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!
 
 
ps -ef | grep mysql
root       725     1  0 Oct29 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe --d
mysql      767   725  0 Oct29 ?        00:10:44 /usr/sbin/mysqld
--basedir=/ --d
root     10902 10556  0 11:42 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mysql

must be missing some basic steps?
 
thanks
Greg

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