Have you changed the default mysqld port? Could you share with us the below command output?
$ my_print_defaults mysqld -- *Wagner Bianchi, MySQL Database Specialist* Mobile: +55.31.8654.9510 E-mail: m...@wagnerbianchi.com Twitter: @wagnerbianchijr 2014-09-04 4:33 GMT-03:00 Banerjee, Somnath <somnath_baner...@mentor.com>: > Hi, > > We are getting following error while launching mysqld_safe in local > machine. > Any help would be appreciated. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 544: Connection refused > connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 544: Connection refused > > trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh) > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > The command used is: > > rsh $HOST -n "<mysql install dir>/bin/mysqld_safe > --defaults-file=$MYSQL_CONFIG --port=$PORT" > > > >