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