Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-16 Thread Danny Stolle
Paul Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Danny Stolle wrote: if i start my mysqld it creates a mysql.sock because of an option in my.cnf: socket="/tmp/mysql.sock" when i `mysqladmin -u root shutdown` the database, the mysql.sock is removed. does your system errors when starting mysqld? He

Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-16 Thread Santino
You need to run the script that creates MySql tables (user, hosts, ...) mysql_install_db in scripts dir. Santino At 15:20 -0400 16-06-2005, Paul Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Danny Stolle wrote: if i start my mysqld it creates a mysql.sock because of an option in my.cnf: socket="/tmp/m

Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Spenser wrote: Try it with an absolute file path instead of a relative one. For instance, /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir = /usr/local/mysql/tmp same old... /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/tmp & cat ../

Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-16 Thread Spenser
Try it with an absolute file path instead of a relative one. For instance, /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir = /usr/local/mysql/tmp On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:20 -0400, Paul Mitchell wrote: > > ./mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/tmp -- MySQL General Ma

Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Mitchell
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Danny Stolle wrote: if i start my mysqld it creates a mysql.sock because of an option in my.cnf: socket="/tmp/mysql.sock" when i `mysqladmin -u root shutdown` the database, the mysql.sock is removed. does your system errors when starting mysqld? Hello Danny, Thanks for t

Re: Newbie mysql.sock question

2005-06-14 Thread Danny Stolle
Paul Mitchell wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to get mediawiki working on a solaris 9 domain (this is on a Sun 15k, FWIW). I had mysql installed and in a fit of stupidity, managed to remove /tmp/mysql.sock. After scouring the Usenet via google, and searching through the archives at lists.mysq