Try the following:
safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
Also make sure that your data directory is readable and writeable by the
mysql user.
the socket file is generally just named mysql.sock and it would be in your
/tmp dir.
-Original Message-
From: Alex Jarvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Use adduser, or the appropriate command for your version of UNIX to
create the mysql account.
Alex Jarvis wrote:
> To summarize: I was getting a "cannot connect through
>socket..." error. It would appear that the server is not running and the
>socket doesn't exist. So I tried to start t
