Bill, Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 6:08:57 AM, you wrote: BF> I installed 3.23.52 on a RedHat 7.3 machine. Everything was just fine until I BF> rebooted later for another reason. Now I can't start the daemon. I tried BF> deleting /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock as root. It deleted, but to no avail. Any BF> idea what I have done wrong? I don't understand sockets. They're magic to me. BF> ps shows no daemon running. mysqladmin also show no daemon and won't "ping"
BF> ...Bill BF> ---------------------------------------------- BF> [username $] /usr/sbin/mysqld BF> 020902 20:58:00 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied BF> 020902 20:58:00 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: BF> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? BF> 020902 20:58:00 Aborting BF> 020902 20:58:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete Check if there is another MySQL server running. Check permissions on the MySQL data dir. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.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