Pushpinder Singh Garcha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using phpMyAdmin to administer my MySQl DB. I am running Mac OS > Jaguar. > when I try to strt up phpMyAdmin I get an error > > > Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 > > Error > > MySQL said: > > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > > > So I try to start up the MySQL Server manually by typing the following > on my command prompt: > and here are the results: > > [psg:/usr/local/mysql] psgarcha% sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe & > [1] 558 > [psg:/usr/local/mysql] psgarcha% Starting mysqld daemon with databases > from /usr/local/mysql/data > 030616 10:16:32 mysqld ended
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