hi, this is rather off topic, but here goes anyway: you don't indicate that you actually started the mysql daemon. check to make sure it is actually running, you can do this with: $ ps ax | grep mysql if your process is running, you should see several processes (it depends on how many child processes are running with your mysqld). if you do not actually find a process, go to /usr/local/mysql/bin/ . it's best to run safe_mysqld. start it in the background, such as: $ safe_mysqld & then you can log off as root and log in as a normal user without killing the process. if the process is running and you still cannot connect, well, one would need more information to figure that one out. hth. ciao! greg. Gregory Haley DBA/Web Programmer Venaca, LLC On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Foresight Systems Ltd. wrote:
Dear Sir,
We are trying to install and configure mysql version .23.32 on Linux Red
Hat 7. Usinf the configure option ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data --with-unix-socket-path=/usr.local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock the make and make install. we have tried several variations of the configure options. no error is shown during compilation and installation. On executing mysql from root there is an error sayin Can't connect to local MySql server. through var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock. We have tried with changed socket path in configure option giving the above path. But we do'nt find the sock file in any of the directory. Plese help us to resolve this problem. We have already installed apache and PHP4 in our system with success.
Akshaya
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