Hello.
Some tips from the manual could be helpful. See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/starting-server.html
untz wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I just downloaded the MySQL 5 Community Edition for OS X Tiger...
>
> Ran the installer and it installed everything to /usr/local/ ...
>
> Updated my .bash_profile by creating a MYSQL_HOME variable and
> appending that MYSQL_HOME/bin to the PATH variable...
>
> Now, the problem is that when I try to check my installation by typing
> "mysql", I receive an ERROR message...
>
> Here's the problem at hand:
>
> Raven:~ untz$ mysql
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
>
> Here's my .bash_profile:
>
> Raven:~ untz$ cat .bash_profile
> . ~/.profile
> AXIS_HOME="/Developer/axis-1_3";
> AXIS_LIB="$AXIS_HOME/lib";
> AXISCLASSPATH="$AXIS_LIB/axis.jar:$AXIS_LIB/commons-discovery.jar:
> $AXIS_LIB/commons-logging.jar:$AXIS_LIB/jaxrpc.jar:$AXIS_LIB/saaj.jar:
> $AXIS_LIB/log4j-1.2.8.jar:$AXIS_LIB/xml-apis.jar:$AXIS_LIB/
> xercesImpl.jar";
> JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/
> Home";
> J2EE_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2sdkee1.3.1";
> J2ME_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/j2me_wireless_toolkit2.2";
> CATALINA_HOME="/Developer/JavaTools/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9";
> MYSQL_HOME="/usr/local/mysql"
> CLASSPATH=.:"$J2EE_HOME/lib/j2ee.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/
> servlet-api.jar":"$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/jsp-api.jar":"/Developer/
> Database/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar";
> PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$J2EE_HOME/bin:$J2ME_HOME/bin:/usr/local/
> bin:/opt/local/bin:$MYSQL_HOME/bin;
> VIMRUNTIME="/Applications/Vim.app/runtime";
> export AXIS_HOME AXIS_LIB AXISCLASSPATH JAVA_HOME J2ME_HOME J2EE_HOME
> CATALINA_HOME MYSQL_HOME PATH VIMRUNTIME bash
>
> Can anyone tell me what possibly I am doing wrong?
>
> Many, many thanks!
>
> -Unnsse
>
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