Re: [Cooker] perl-mysql (was: mod_php-mysql bad)

[Steve Fox]

Fran Parker wrote:
> 
> Hi Pixel,
> 
> got the ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/perl-Mysql-1.22_15-2mdk.i586.rpm
> and installed it, rebooted and got the following results (we are getting
> somewhere
> good, not all the way though):
> 
> [fran@flp fran]$ su
> Password:
> [root@flp fran]# perl -e 'use DBD::mysql;';
> [root@flp fran]# mysql -u root
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
> [root@flp fran]#

Usually that just means the the MySQL server isn't started. Are you
absolutely sure it's running? What does 'ps ux' show?

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