On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Brian Walker wrote:

> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
> (111)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists! 

When this happened to me, it was because mysql didn't
exist as a subdir under /var/lib. I created the mysql
dir, and it worked fine.

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