From: Jan Steinman Date: December 10 2002 10:20pm Subject: User Install Bug (Was: mysqlbug) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/127163 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From: "amit parikh" > >i install binary version of the mysql . >i skipped first 2 stage while installing (that is creating user & group) and directly run binary script file. > >when i run this command, i got following error. >>mysql -u root mysql >>ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111). >How to solve this error. Uhm, re-install without skipping any steps? -- : Jan Steinman -- nature Transography(TM): : Bytesmiths -- artists' services: : Buy My Step Van!