Use adduser, or the appropriate command for your version of UNIX to
create the mysql account.
Alex Jarvis wrote:
> To summarize: I was getting a "cannot connect through
>socket..." error. It would appear that the server is not running and the
>socket doesn't exist. So I tried to start the server (as root) using
>safe-mysqld & and mysql.server start, but in either case I recieve the
>message:
>
>chown: 'mysql': invalid user
>Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
>020711 13:18:45 mysqld ended
>
> Any suggestions? Keep in mind I'm not an expert with UNIX so it
>could be something that seems simple. Thanks again,
>
>-Alex
>
>
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