[Tfug] installing mysql problems

[Eric Gearhart]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM,  <doug1 at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I trying to install mysql on a fedora 9 machine I used:
>  yum install mysql
> and then yum install mysql mysql-server
> everything seemed to work fine until I typed mysql at the command line and got
> the following error:
>
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (40)

Do you have MySQL configured to accept connections from file sockets?
Off the top of my head that looks like the problem.

Try  'mysql -P 3306 -h localhost' to use a TCP port number instead of
a file socket

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Eric
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