OK..... I sent to you once on the list, and to the original poster, but it was returned from his email server (who knows).
Here it goes. The most probable reason reason that file is not there is permissions. When mysqld starts (under user mysql or mysqld) it writes the file in the directory specified by the my.cnf file. If the my.cnf file says path-to-unix-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock, the user that is starting the server has to have write permissions in that directory. Otherwise it will not create the file and die. Make sure that the user who starts the server has write permissions in the directory. A simple ls -l will tell you. I hope this can fix your problem, it seems you've been stuck on this quite a while. Good Luck Brian -----Original Message----- From: John Nichel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mysql.sock doesn't exist Kevin H. Phillips wrote: > Well, the find / -name mysql.sock didn't return anything at all so this > *is* an odd predicament. Would it work if someone with a similar > version e-mailed me a copy of their mysql.sock file? > > Kevin > > > > > > > John Nichel wrote: > It doesn't look as if you have any conflicting MySQL versions. When the > server is running, have you looked for the socket (someone may have > already asked you this, but I'm running out of ideas)? > > find / -name mysql.sock > mysql.sock isn't a 'file' in the normal sense of the word. It's more like a symbolic link to the socket which is bound to the the port MySQL is listening on (so to speak). It can't really be sent to you, as it has to be generated when the server starts up. Let me recap what we've done here so that hopefully someone will reconize the problem for you... MySQL is running (verified with a ps -ax) mysql.sock does not exist cannot shutdown server, even as root What's the permissions on the /var/lib/mysql directory, and what user/group is the mysql daemon set to run as in your my.cnf file? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
