what does this mean please?

2001-06-22 Thread trogers

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

and how you fix it?

thanks.

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Re: what does this mean please?

2001-06-22 Thread Seth Northrop


 ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
 '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

 and how you fix it?

It means you have no local socket for mysql to connect through.  Meaning,
something/someone either deleted or mangled /tmp/mysql.sock or mysqld
isn't running to begin with.

Try to connect with the -host flag to connect (so it won't use the socket)
and shutdown and try to restart the mysqld - hopefully this will recreate
mysql.sock

Take care,
seth

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