Hi Steve,
ps ux as follows:
[fran@flp fran]$ su Password: [root@flp fran]# ps ux USER PID %CPU %MEM
VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 1060 112
? S 18:48 0:05 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?
SW 18:48 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW
18:48 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 18:48
0:00 [kpiod] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 18:48 0:02
[kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< 18:48 0:00
[mdrecoveryd] root 351 0.0 0.3 1116 208 ? S 18:48 0:00
syslogd -m 0 root 361 0.0 0.7 1372 492 ? S 18:48 0:00
klogd root 391 0.0 0.2 1272 168 ? S 18:48 0:00 crond
root 406 0.0 0.3 1080 196 ? S 18:48 0:00 inetd root
421 0.0 0.1 1132 80 ? S 18:48 0:00 lpd root 500 0.0
0.4 1584 288 ? S 18:48 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/root 522 0.0
0.1 1088 84 ttyS0 S 18:48 0:00 gpm -t ms root 588 0.0 2.1
3268 1396 ? S 18:48 0:00 smbd -D root 598 0.0 0.9 1808 592
? S 18:48 0:00 nmbd -D root 628 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty1
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 629 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty2
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 630 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty3
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 631 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty4
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 632 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty5
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 633 0.0 0.0 1028 60 tty6
S 18:48 0:00 /sbin/mingetty ttroot 634 0.0 0.3 6076 200 ?
S 18:48 0:00 kdm -nodaemon root 641 1.7 10.2 18540 6640 ?
S 18:48 5:06 /etc/X11/X -auth root 642 0.0 0.0 7260 0 ?
SW 18:48 0:00 [kdm] root 727 0.0 1.4 6704 972 ? S
18:49 0:00 /usr/bin/kppp root 730 0.0 0.0 1504 0 ttyS1 SW
18:50 0:00 [pppd] root 1071 0.5 1.4 2012 924 pts/0 S 23:39
0:00 su root 1074 1.1 1.9 2056 1268 pts/0 S 23:40 0:00 bash
root 1089 0.0 1.4 2492 912 pts/0 R 23:40 0:00 ps ux [root@flp
fran]#
Can you make heads or tails out of that? :)
Bambi
Steve Fox wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
>
> Steve Fox
> http://k-lug.com
