Re: [techtalk] mysql install on RH 6.1

2000-10-11 Thread Mandi
the mysql.sock files are created when the mysql server is started. The daemon usually ends up in /usr/local/bin, and it's name is safe_mysqld. If it gets stuck, or the .sock file gets deleted, just kill the process and start it again. On RH 6.1 with RPMS, I ran into the issue that i had to creat

[techtalk] mysql install on RH 6.1

2000-10-11 Thread Erb, Maria
Hi all, I installed a mysql tarball on RH 6.1 and tried to connect to the mysql server but got a "can't connect to mysql server through socket /tmp/mysql.sock" . If I install mysql with the rpm files and try to connect to the server I get a "can't connect to mysql server through socket /var/lib