How are you starting the MySQL server? (e.g. command) What does you cnf file look like?
-----Original Message----- From: Zion Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:14 AM To: Franz, Fa. PostDirekt MA Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: Socket Error Here is what I got out of the log file: 030122 02:59:51 mysqld started 030122 2:59:51 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Address already in use 030122 2:59:51 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock ? 030122 2:59:51 Aborting But mysqld is not running, here is the output from top: ID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND 11347 root 28 0 728K 1376K run - 0:01 0.00% sshd 19398 root 2 0 316K 904K idle select 0:00 0.00% sftp-server 8678 root 2 0 356K 864K idle select 0:00 0.00% sshd 14804 www 2 0 1468K 2592K sleep select 0:00 0.00% httpd 22335 www 2 0 2672K 3232K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 27374 www 2 0 2668K 3228K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 23309 www 2 0 2668K 3224K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 6726 www 2 0 2668K 3216K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 19186 root 2 0 228K 456K sleep select 0:00 0.00% cron 11450 www 2 0 2668K 3240K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 19456 root 18 0 344K 296K idle pause 0:00 0.00% csh 24644 root 2 0 100K 380K idle select 0:00 0.00% syslogd 15108 www 2 0 1468K 1172K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd 14034 root 28 0 144K 716K run - 0:00 0.00% top 26192 ad 3 0 376K 288K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% sh 1 root 10 0 336K 200K idle wait 0:00 0.00% init 7933 root 18 0 324K 240K idle pause 0:00 0.00% csh 26396 root 3 0 48K 420K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty 17248 root 3 0 48K 420K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty 26494 root 3 0 48K 420K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty 1790 root 3 0 48K 420K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% getty 10937 root 2 0 64K 348K idle select 0:00 0.00% inetd 12757 www 2 0 1468K 584K idle netcon 0:00 0.00% httpd --- "Franz, Fa. PostDirekt MA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Morning Anthony , > > your question was: > > >ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server > >through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (38) > > >I've been reading and searching the documentation > for > >hours and I know this is simple to fix but I can't > >figure it out. I've been at it for our hours. The > >mysql directory above does not exist but if I > create > >it and make a file called mysql.sock that does not > >work either. Could someone point me in the right > >direction? Please.... > > Looks like your mysql-daemon doesn't run at all > or/and isn't > installed in the directory your client expected it. > In order to help you there's some information > needed: > Which operating system do you use ? > How did you install (e.g. rpm) ? > Which version of mysql did you try to install ? > How did you start the server ? > > If you don't know the answers to some of that > questions , > describe what you did. > > prosit > Klaus __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
