From: javad bakhshi Date: October 9 2011 9:00am Subject: Re: Socket not found List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/225979 Message-Id: <1318150832.40509.YahooMailNeo@web125712.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="2132688063-852007059-1318150832=:40509" --2132688063-852007059-1318150832=:40509 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,=0A=0AI had the same problem recently restart the server so it can creat= e your socket again and it should be all right.=0A=0A=A0=0ABest regards,=0A= Javad=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Andrew Moore =0ATo: Peter Schrock =0ACc: mysql= @lists.mysql.com=0ASent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 10:51 AM=0ASubject: Re:Soc= ket not found=0A=0AHey Peter,=0A=0A2 options;=0A=0ACheck the socket key-val= ue in the my.cnf file under the client section.=0AExplicitly tell mysqladmi= n what one to use with the relevant cmd line=0Aoption. See the documentatio= n for syntax.=0A=0AHth=0A=0AAndrew=0AOn 9 Oct 2011 09:21, "Peter Schrock" <= peter.schrock@stripped> wrote:=0A=0A> I just loaded and built three differ= ent versions of mysql and all three=0A> versions have given me the same res= ults. When trying to change the password=0A> to root, this is what I get:= =0A>=0A> ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed=0A> error: '= Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket=0A> '/tmp/mysql.sock'=0A= > (2)'=0A> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.so= ck' exists!=0A>=0A> Help please.=0A>=0A> Peter=0A> --2132688063-852007059-1318150832=:40509--