Hi, My server just crashed yesterday nite. After I got it up and running again, I couldn't get connection to MySQL database. Mysqld processes are checked and verified running upon booting up. But it just went dead after I tried to get a connection thru mysqladmin!! It just says error connecting to server at localhost. /etc/hosts has been checked and the entry for localhost is found in it.... MySQL version is 3.22.32 and is currently running on Redhat 6.2. What could be the possible reason? Could it be permission problems? I have already carried out a repairing and reindexing of the database tables but to no avail! Please help... Thanks, Darren