On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 02:42, Joe Villari wrote:
> I'm hoping I can get some help here, I'm trying to get MySQL running 
> on YellowDog Linux 2.4.17 kernel. I've installed the mysql, 
> mysql-server and mysql-devel-3.23.32-1.7a rpms from my install CD. 
> Ran mysql_install_db then changed the group and owner on 
> /var/lib/mysql to root.

I think that, at least, the owner of /var/lib/mysql should be "mysql".
This way, "mysql" can create the /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Hope this helps..

Also, be shure that there is no other mysqld process runnig.

-- 
Diana Soares

(sql)

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