>>>>> "root" == root <root@stripped> writes:
>> Description:
root> Well the mysql_install_db worked out this time and bin/safe_mysqld
root> & also worked and the daemon is running. I can't find a socket file
root> though.
Hi!
This is because you are configuring MySQL with 'mit-threads'. In this
case you will NOT get an socket file (as mit-threads doesn't support
Unix sockets)
root> Also, when I run mysqladmin version I get an error. Here it is;
root> # ./bin/safe_mysqld &
root> [1] 16338
root> # Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /home/.MySQL/data
root> # ./bin/mysqladmin version
root> ./bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
root> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
root> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
root> '
root> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'
root> exists!
root> # ls
root> So as I said mysqld is running but I the socket doesn't exist.
Try instead:
mysqladmin -h 'hostname' version
You can avoid having to specify hostname every time by creating the
file:
/etc/my.cnf
with the following information:
[client]
hostname='your-hostname'
[mysqld]
hostname='your-hostname'
Regards,
Monty
