This is a permissions issue. Check the directories mysql is located in
and grant executable permissions. Also verify ownership requirements for
each of these directories.
Charles Hagen
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Russ Heaton wrote:
>
> I just installed RH 7.0 selecting the 'install everything' option. Now
> when I use safe_mysqld, it starts then ends immediately with the
> following message in the log.
>
> 010310 12:43:30 mysqld started
> 010310 12:43:30 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission
> denied
> 010310 12:43:30 Do you already have another mysqld server running on
> socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.
> sock ?
> 010310 12:43:30 Aborting
>
> 010310 12:43:30 mysqld ended
>
> As far as I can see (using ps -ax | grep -i mysql), there is no other
> mysqld running, and although /var/lib/mysql/ exists with the mysql
> and test databases in it, there is no file named mysql.sock in it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Russ Heaton
>
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