bobit wrote:
>
> Hi - here's my prob and background info. Tried the fix - it didn't work.
>
> MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
>
> Any thoughts...?
>
Is MySQL actually running on your system? Even if you installed it, it's
not started automatically on RedHat by default.
<snip>
> My linux book isn't very good on dir permissions. Will chmod change these even if
>the directory is not empty.
>
You don't use chmod to change permission for directories. Instead you
can use chown to change the owner of directories.
> And how do u list permissions to a directory? ls -l only seems to work for files.
>
ls -l does work for directories.
> In the error log in the same directory I also get:
>
> mysql.host doesn't exist - but this may be a susequent error.
>
> I'm a complete newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
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