Thanks man, I tried that but still no hope.. when I did a ps -ef | grep mysqld there is nothing in my output!
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeee.. somebody make this thing work.....!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Pankaj Gautam To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Can't Connect To MySQL First try to run the mysql server i.e. mysqld safe_mysqld & and verify using ps -ef | grep mysqld it should list something like this root 3314 16400 0 01:31 pts/8 00:00:00 sh /usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld root 3329 3314 0 01:31 pts/8 00:00:00 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --base root 3331 3329 0 01:31 pts/8 00:00:00 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --base root 3332 3331 0 01:31 pts/8 00:00:00 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --base now it should work for u -PG Pankaj Gautam #127, 575 Birch Creek, South Rengstorff Avenue Mountain View CA, 94040 From: "M. Alageswaran" To: Subject: Can't Connect To MySQL Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:43:32 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [192.58.197.162] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBD9E5BEE000B400431E5C03AC5A207940; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:40:47 -0700 Received: (qmail 26254 invoked by uid 7797); 23 Oct 2001 06:32:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 26204 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2001 06:32:25 -0000 >From mysql-return-88735-gautam_pankaj Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:41:50 -0700 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm (http://www.ezmlm.org) List-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <005a01c15b8e$08e69f60$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Hi, I just installed Redhat 7.1 will all the options (full install) When I try to connect to MySQL I am getting this error.... /usr/bin/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! I tried to follow as mention on manuall but I still fail to bring up the server...any simpler method? Many thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail To unsubscribe, e-mail Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
