-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 3:03 pm, Stefan Hinz wrote: > RBE, > > >> Sorry, but this doesn't answer my question. You said you used > >> MySQL Monitor (the command line tool) when trying to connect to > >> the server. When you started MySQL Monitor, how did you do that? > >> Did you just double-click mysql (the MySQL Monitor) in some > >> graphical file manager tool, or did you cd to the directory where > >> mysql is sitting, and then type "mysql"? > > > > I put a desktop icon link to the directory where mysqlcc was > > located and it asks for a "connection". When I click on the > > connection, I am asked for a user and password, but no password or > > user combination works. > > > > I've also done the command line option "mysql -urbe -p<password> > > but the connection is refused with error 2002. > > Error 2002, strange. When the MySQL server is down, you should get > error 2003, but maybe that's different with MySQLCC. > > To track down the problem, try as follows: > > 1) Make sure the MySQL server is running. Do something like "ps xa | > grep mysqld". If it's not running, try to start it like this: > "mysqld". This should report errors on startup, telling you where the > problem lies.
mysqld is running. > 2) If the problem reported says something about "host.frm missing", > you forgot the post-installation duties, i.e. to set up the grant > tables. Here's how you do that: > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Post-installation.html No reported problem. > 3) If it's running, you have a privilege problem. If your MySQL > installation is new, you'll have just some basic users set up. One of > them is called "root", who can connect from localhost without > password. Thus, try this: "mysql -uroot". "mysql -uroot" gives me the following error message: "ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)" - -- Robert Black Eagle (DS) Get my key from http://www.keyserver.net/en Trying to copyright bits is like trying to make water dry. But politicians try, anyway. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+TrmatjSYKkYJrmcRAoyfAJ0dViac9pCbzXgrN2JW0ooumSSkoACbB5ky Znw467FvLJwxGMxfeWob1Fw= =slla -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
