On 16/01/2004, at 12:32 PM, Gregory Newby wrote:
From your description, it's not clear whether you already did this. If you installed other than with a binary distribution from mysql.com (or a mirror), it is possible that things are in somewhat different locations than in the INSTALL-BINARY file. But get the file (it comes with the distributions you download) so you can see the steps.
yep I've already done this.
everything I do comes back with the same error:
ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
I even deleted the mysql.sock and used 'mysql_config --socket' to recreate it.
this produces a new mysql.sock but then trying to start mysql produces the error of before.
can i uninstall mysql rather than deleting it. I've tried the 'rpm' utility but it's not on my os.
thanks heaps for all your help.
ta tait
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