Re: socket error

2003-02-12 Thread J. A. Tovey
MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists! I would really appreciate it if someone could point out at which point I am messing it up. Thanks for your time --- gerald_clark <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
yes, i ran everything again --- Peter Grigor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
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Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
i'm sorry - could you explain that for a simpleton :-) i have no idea what you mean :-/ --- Peter Grigor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message ----- > From: "J. A. Tovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: socket error

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
his other mysql ! its probably because i have installed and uninstalled so many times i probably have about 10 different ones installed - how can i get it back to one installation maybe i need to reformat again ... --- Peter Grigor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message --

socket error

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
hi - i have got to the beginning stages of installation - on trying to create a root password with: bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password' i get bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)' Check

stuck

2003-02-11 Thread J. A. Tovey
hi, i am having no end of problems with installing mysql (any 3.23.* version) on linux. i started off on SuSe and received different errors, I am now trying with mandrake, The current error is that I have downloaded the mysql.3.23.55-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz and done the following: tar -zxvf mysq