Can not connect (again)

2002-03-07 Thread dlyles
Ok people, I'm desperate for the help. I'm going to try to be as detailed as possible, because I need the two year old explanation. I recently installed MySQL on my Cobalt Raq3. I was running fine, created a db, table created a user, gave some permissions, and thought I was rolling along.

Can not connect again

2002-03-07 Thread dlyles
Ok, that worked. I started MySQL. I still don't know how to shutdown mysql, or if that was my problem. Unfortunately, that is the ONLY way I can log into mysql. Anyway, that would be fine, only now I have an ASP script but I am a privelegas idiot, so I don't know how to set a UID and

Newbie can't start mysql - PLEASE HELP

2002-03-05 Thread dlyles
I think I did something wrong. It was working OK (not great, but OK). Now I can't start mysqld. (Error 2002 can't connect to MySQL server through socket /var/lib...). I don't know if this matters, but for some reason I deleted a .pid file that I thought was making me not able to start mysqld

Error 2002 can't connect to MySQL server through socket /var/lib...

2002-03-04 Thread dlyles
This is the message I am getting. I am currently running MySQL (or trying to) on a Cobalt Raq3. I recently uninstalled and reinstalled, but am unable to remove this message. I can't start mysql or do anything. That's the message I keep getting. Any ideas?