Thanks Dave, I don't have mysqladmin in fink so I don't know if I'll try start up w/o being able to shut down. Your start up script is a lot like that that shows up after installing mysql except the first 2 commands are in one line. that didn't work but maybe your method will.I appreciate your help. Anyone else have an idea? Brian On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 15:10, David Reiser wrote: > On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > > Hello > > I downloaded and installed mysql. I'm OSX10.3.8, latest fink and all > > updated to latest unstable packages. I read and attempted to set up my > > mysql password, etc. from the install info but I can't even start the > > server: > > brianoke% mysql > > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > > '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > > Any help would be appreciated > > Thanks, > > Brian > > database servers appear to be a bit different. In one of the places I > was digging recently, the following worked for getting the server > working: > > If you don't use the Startup Item, enter the following command sequence: > shell> cd /sw > shell> sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe > (Enter your password, if necessary) > (Press Control-Z) > shell> bg > > > I used this incantation for MySQL 4.whatever installed via Fink. To > stop the server (apparently OSX provides no completely safe way to shut > the server down automatically on shutdown or reboot...) you need to use > mysqladmin (I think that's it. Can you tell I haven't done this much?). > > Dave > > -- > David Reiser > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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