Starting MySQL with Redhat 8.0

2002-12-24 Thread Andrew Schaefer
I had the same problem. I fixed it by realizing that when the program was installed it put the mysql.sock file in the /var/libs/mysql dir however when it starts it looks for the file in /tmp You can either change the folder it looks in, or do what I did and just copy the mysql.sock from /var/

Trouble after installing MySQL

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Schaefer
I am having problems getting mysql working. I used the rpm packages to install the mysql and mysql-max. It seems like they are running because when I use telnet to try to connect to the port 3306 all I get is a message saying E Host 'ip' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server. Howeve