I have been noticing following message during mysql startup.the installation was fine. 060213 16:40:58 mysqld started 060213 16:40:59 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 060213 16:40:59 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 060213 16:40:59 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 060213 16:40:59 [ERROR] Aborting 060213 16:40:59 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 060213 16:41:01 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 43655 060213 16:41:01 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 060213 16:41:01 mysqld ended Here is my my.cnf file details [client] # socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock socket = /usr/local/mysql/mysql.sock [mysqld] datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data/ port =3306 socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mysql [mysql.server] #user=mysql basedir=/usr/local/mysql [safe_mysqld] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid #################################### Please sugegst . thx +ravi
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