Re: [SL] can't connect to mysql

[Terry C. <tc...@se...>]

On 6 Apr 2002, Honest to Goodness wrote:

> I fought all day against mysql and was thrown back in defeat. I tried
> installing from source, from rpm and through red-carpet, I have
> configured everything a dozen times and I still can't connect to port
> 3306.
>
> I get this error:
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Have you checked to see if 'skip-networking' is uncommented in the
global mysql configuration file. Mine is in /etc/mysql/my.conf.


Regards,


Terry.

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