Sounds like mysql service hasn't started yet.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wu [mailto:dwu@;stepup.ca]
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: (beginner) mysql connection problem!
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> On my local machine I had mysql installed, and I was able to log in and 
> doing a test on it.
> but today as I am trying to login using >mysql or >mysql -u root -p, I 
> got the error message saying; ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL 
> server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2), I had not touch the setting 
> of the mysql at all. What should I do to solve this problem?? Thank you 
> all for your help.
> 
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