Hi Steve,
you haven't said what OS you are installing this on or how you have
installed MySQL. Normally you would use a version avaialable in your
OS distribution as this avoids any overly complicated installation and
will manage security and bug patches for you MySQL binaries. Ie
installation can usually be completed with one yum or apt-get command
on Linux.
Looking at the point at which you find yourself now I suspect you have
run "mysqld_safe --defaults-file" and that this has stopped or you
have killed it. This should remain running in the background in order
that MySQL will be up and available either by socket or TCP/IP. If in
doubt please check what mysql processes are running via "ps", if you
don't have any MySQL processes running this will explain why you
cannot connect to it (which the script you ran needs to do). You will
be able to find more detailed information in the MySQL error log,
thanks, Andy.
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