my.cnf Error

[Mack Richardson]

I'm running MySQL 4.0.20 on Mac OS X 10.3.4.  I've added the my.cnf to the
etc directory,but mySQL server returns the following error:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Removing my.cnf does not solve the problem.  I have had to reinstall MySQL
to get it working again.

Any help?