Is the mysqld daemon running? (It should be.) What does the command ps aux | grep mysqld
say? > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sargent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:52 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: error 2002: > > Hi All, > > I get the following error in Fedora3 when trying to run mysql > from the cli, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# mysql > ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > I installed mysql via yum. I'm rather new to Linux and even > more so to > MysSQL. Cheers. > > Mark Sargent. > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
