Chris,
I know very little about MySQL -- or linux -- but I had the same problem
you are having and fixed it the following way.
>MYSQL_UNIX_PORT=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>MYSQL_TCP_PORT=3307
>export MYSQL_UNIX_PORT MYSQL_TCP_PORT
>mysql_install_db
I found this solution in section 4.15.1 of the MySQL manual
good luck,
Richard
Chris wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem starting the mysqld server...I'm using the redhat rpm
> version of MySQL-3.22.15-gamma-1. I get the following error in the error
> log for mysql:
>
> ------------
>
> mysqld started on Wed Apr 7 12:58:21 EDT 1999
> 990407 12:58:21 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
> 990407 12:58:21 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket:
> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ?
> 990407 12:58:21 Aborting
>
> mysqld ended on Wed Apr 7 12:58:21 EDT 1999
>
> ------------
>
> I'm trying to start using the provided rc script as root. The strange
> thing is that /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock does not exist!
>
> Is it possible that a socket is still bound to the port that mysql uses
> even though no server is running? If so, how do I fix this problem?
>
> --Chris
>
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