jason bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I'm consistently getting the error (2002)
> : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var..../mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
You mean "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"? Details are IMPORANT.
> I've deleted it and running something above has brought it back again!- this
> is good I think
Bad idea.
> 1. Can i found out if the server is or is not running -which command and
> what am I looking for?
mysqladmin status
> 2. Can I stop the mysql server
mysqladmin shutdown
> 3. Can I start it?
safe_mysqld&
Where is mysql.sock? In /tmp? If so:
ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Should get you going.
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