The client has to be able to search var/lib/mysql and read and write the 
var/lib/mysql/mysql.socket.
It is probably not able to do one of the above due to imprpoer 
privileges at the filesystem level.

Doug Thompson wrote:

>Egor:
>
>Yesterday, I wrote and described that my fix for a single cpu, non-RAID environment 
>was installing a new version.  
>What I didn't say at the time is that the mysql.sock file was present exactly where 
>it was supposed to be and at 
>exactly the location the error message said it couldn't find it: 
>var/lib/mysql/mysql.socket.  Go figure.
>
>There is obviously something else going on, but I am ill-equipped to say what it is.  
>The point I am trying to make, 
>however, is that the procedures in the manual and all the stock answers are failing 
>to provide a correction in many 
>cases.  I'm happy to have 3.23.49a functioning and now want to get to work with it.  
>However, if there are data to be 
>collected that would be helpful, I suppose I can revert to the RPM that came with 
>RH7.1 and see if I can re-create the 
>failure.
>
>Doug
>Bot Bottleneck Botulin - query
>
>On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:01 +0200, Egor Egorov wrote:
>
>>d> Somewhere in setting the permissions and using safe_mysql I messed something
>>d> up.  I am now getting an Error 2002 can't connect to local Mysql through
>>d> socket var/lib/mysql/mysql.socket.  I don't know much about the socket file,
>>d> so if that has something to do with the problem, I'll need a brief
>>d> explanation.  Can someone PLEASE HELP because I'm desperate to get this
>>d> fixed yesterday.
>>
>
>>    If your MySQL server is running then you should check location of
>>    the socket file and check the socket path in your my.cnf file.
>>
>>    Check your privileges on the socket file and on the dir that 
>>    contains socket file.
>>
>>    You can find the description of this error at:
>>           http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/a/Can_not_connect_to_server.html
>>
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