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In just installed mysql 3.23.58 on my debian system. and copied my.conf to /etc/mysql/

I tried to start the the database by

mysqld --user=mysql&

and it works just fine

but as I tried to start it by

./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql& or ./support-files/mysql.server start

there is only one line of response: starting mysqld daemon with database from /usr/local/mysql/data

and then when I typed in "mysql"

I got "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'"

I found the sock file is in /tmp/mysqld.sock instead of the path in my.conf "var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'"

so I changed all the socket path in the configuration file to let it poin to /tmp/mysql.sock,

but again there is error message "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysqld.sock'"

now I totally have no idea why

would anybody throw me some light?

Thanks!!