Hello.
Start points for you problem:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/starting-server.html
> socket=/home.dbdata/mysql/mysql.sock
What is your client thinks about the location of mysqld socket?
Put the same
>>Running /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start says that mysql start failed BUT
This doesn't nesessarily mean that mysql hasn't started. This script waits
only for certain time to check if mysql has started or not. If it is not
started in that time, it simply says 'mysql start failed'. But mysql may
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