Hi, Jon. mysqld.sock is a unix socket. mysqld creates it while starting and removes it when you stop the server.
Jon Miller wrote:
Is there a way to recreate the mysqld.sock file, it has gone missing from :/var/run/mysqld . Now MySQL will not run. Thanks Jon L. Miller, ASE, CNS, CLS, MCNE, CCNA Director/Sr Systems Consultant MMT Networks Pty Ltd http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au Resellers for: Novell Gold Partner, Cisco Partner, Peopletelecom, Westnet, Sophos Anti-Virus, CA Products "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
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