George,
Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 5:09:47 PM, you wrote:

GP> Its slightly difficult doing it exactly as my email is on my W2K laptop -
GP> but here goes:

GP> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
GP> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'
GP> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
GP> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!

GP> If I run mysqld, I get an error:


GP> Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
GP> Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket:
GP> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ?

Run

   ps ax | grep mysqld

to see if mysqld is already running.



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