Ooops! you forgot to run "safe_mysqld". This command will start the
MySQL daemon.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Benjie Lazaro III wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm a newbie in using MySQL, and hope that you could help me in the problem
> that I've encountered while installing MySQL.
>
> I've downloaded the MySQL source version 3.22.32 from the MySQL website and
> will install it on my RedHat Linux 6.2 box with 64Mb of RAM, running on an
> AMD K6-2.
>
> And as my reference, I have a copy of O'Reilly's book on MySql and mSQL. I
> followed the instruction on how to properly install MySQL:
>
> I logged as root. Then done the following procedures:
>
> gzip -c mysql-2.22.32.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> cd mysql-2.22.32
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> ./scripts/mysql_install_db
> ./bin/mysqladmin version
>
>
> After I typed in "./script/mysql_install_db" I get the following msg.:
>
> To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.server to
> the right place for your system.
>
> PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER!
> This is done with:
> /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
> See the manual for more instructions.
> ...
>
> Then, I cd to /usr/local/bin to check if MySQL is running. So, inside
> /usr/local/bin ... I invoked ./bin/mysqladmin version but got the error
> message:
>
> ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'tmp/mysql.sock'
> (111)'
> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
>
>
> Anyone has an idea how to fix this problem? I would really appreciate some
> help or directions.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Benjie Lazaro III
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