Sorry about the formatting Steve...
It looked much better in the terminal window, nice columns :)
Netscrappy did some strange stuff to it.
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
