Ruben,
Sunday, June 23, 2002, 10:51:59 AM, you wrote:

RIS> Of course it's running.  I can only get in as the root user
RIS> of the system

Check where your mysql.sock is located and check permissions on the socket file.

RIS> On 2002.06.23 03:51 Brandon McCombs wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Ruben I Safir wrote:
>> > 
>> > I recently installed mysql on a new system and the client on works with root?
>> > 
>> > Whats up?
>> > 
>> > ruben@www2:~> !mys
>> > mysql -p
>> > Enter password:
>> > ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' 
>(2)
>> > ruben@www2:~>
>>
>> mysqld isn't running. Launch mysqld then try using the mysql client to
>> access the databases.




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