From: Date: July 2 2003 2:45am Subject: What is mysql.soc and where is it located List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/144259 Message-Id: <3F05CB12@webmaillz.gwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi, The following message appeared when I installed mysql server on Linux,,, [2] 10804 [1] Exit 1 ./bin/mysqld -user-mysql [mysql@localhost mysql]$ Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 030701 19:59:18 mysqld ended And also sometime the message can't find mysql.sock in /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock despite that the installation directory and the daemon is in /usr/local/mysql/bin I performed standard installation and also this message appeared if I install the MySql server as part of Redhat installed. Thanks Suboh