Re: Newly installed mysql 4.0

[Paul DuBois]

At 10:04 -0800 3/17/04, ryan@stripped wrote:
>(newbie warning)
>Hi,
>I just removed 3.23  and installed 4 (the first time I have done an 
>installation.) as per the docs I then tried to make a password for 
>"root" and ran this from SSH root:
>
># /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'jman77'
>
>but got this a reply:
>
>/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
>'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'
>Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: 
>'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!
>
>Why is that? what should I do?

Check that mysqld is running.  That's the kind of error you get if the
server isn't running.

It may also be that it's running, but the MySQL 4 server is using a different
socket file than your old 3.23 server.


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