At 11:34 AM +0300 5/12/1999, Jani Tolonen wrote:
>Jesper Lindhardt writes:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've been fighting with MySQL for the last 3-4 days, trying to install
>it on my FreeBSD (2.2.8) server. But, I can't get it to work, and I can't
>figure out what is wrong.
> >
> > Whenever I try to run mysqladmin it gives me the following errormessage:
> >
> > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
> > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
>
>Hi!
>
>Have you started MySQL server, 'mysqld'? If you have, have you
>defined it to listen to some other socket than the default
>one, '/tmp/mysql.sock' ? It seems that mysqld is not running.
Since this is FreeBSD 2.2.8, your distribution may be built to use
MIT-pthreads,
which doesn't support connections on UNIX domain sockets. Try establishing
a TCP/IP connection instead by providing an explicit -h your-host-name
option.
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