To start the server run the following...
service mysqld start
once it is started you can check to see if it running by using...
ps aux
which will show the processes running and look for mysql
Larry S. Brown
Dimension Networks, Inc.
(727) 723-8388
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Pippin [mailto:spippin@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 1:10 PM
To: mutkas10@stripped
Cc: mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: Starting of MySQL with redhat 8
> I'm a beginner with mysql and i installed it with linux.
> I'm getting this message when i tried to be connected :
> Error 2002 : can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111).
>
> Can you help me by finding how to be connected to the database ?
Make sure the files does exist in the directorey listed above.
If it does not, make sure you have socket=<directory location> in your
config file.
(mysql, query)
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