At 2:50 PM -0800 2000-02-19, Christina Horvath wrote:
>Hello again!
>
>I re-installed MySQL and this time I did this
>
>(1) ./config
>(2) make
>(3) make install
>(4) ./scripts/mysql_install_db
>(5) ./bin/mysqladmin version /* this command yields the error ->
>cannot find socket /tmp/mysql.sock */
>
>Then I tried to find the socket somewhere in the system by doing:
>
>/# find / -name mysql.sock
>
>The sockect is not in the syetem. What can I do next guys?
You haven't started the server. mysql_install_db starts the server
in order to create the grant tables, but the server terminates afterward
(at least from about 3.22.11 or so). If you run "safe_mysqld &" the server
should start up and create the socket. Then you should be able to connect
to it.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
