Hi, I had the same problem recently restart the server so it can create your socket again and it should be all right.
Best regards, Javad ________________________________ From: Andrew Moore <[email protected]> To: Peter Schrock <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 10:51 AM Subject: Re:Socket not found 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" <[email protected]> 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 >
