Erin,
Tuesday, February 05, 2002, 12:37:33 AM, you wrote:

EL> Hi, this is Erin Lilly, I've used support before with you all for
EL> bodyconsultant.com and you were extremely helpful. I'm installing mysql on
EL> erinlilly.net and have run into that common  /tmp/mysql.sock (111) error
EL> version: 3.23.45-pc-linux

EL> you then need to type in /usr/local to see where I've installed the
EL> mysql-3.23.45



EL> Please take a look where I had installed it in
EL> /usr/local/mysql-3.23.45-pc-linux-i686

EL> I've created a ln -s from tmp to /usr/local/mysql-3.23....
EL> have created a ln -s from mysql-3.23.45 and mysql

EL> What's the problem?? When I go to do the ./bin/safe_mysql & command it turns
EL> server on then logs off.  Also when I do bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password
EL> it gives me the /tmp/mysql.sock (111) not found - even though I have ln -s
EL> that tmp directory to the mysql-3.23.45 ...

EL> Have tested the telnet erinlilly.net 3306 - and no connection.

EL> MY QUESTIONS:
EL> 1.  What do I need to do to get the connection going.
EL> 2.  How can I be sure the tables were created.   I ran install_db and it
EL> appeared to do everything.

You should do : ls data_dir/mysql
data_dir is the MySQL data directory.

EL> 3.  What do I need to do to make things right here?
EL> 4.  Have all my ln -s created some inherent problems?

Check the following links:
  http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html
  http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysql_install_db.html




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