Hey Peter, 2 options;
Check the socket key-value in the my.cnf file under the client section. Explicitly tell mysqladmin what one to use with the relevant cmd line option. See the documentation for syntax. Hth Andrew On 9 Oct 2011 09:21, "Peter Schrock" <peter.schr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just loaded and built three different versions of mysql and all three > versions have given me the same results. When trying to change the password > to root, this is what I get: > > ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/tmp/mysql.sock' > (2)' > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists! > > Help please. > > Peter >
