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* On 13/12/05 23:20 -0800, Jose Borquez wrote:
> I am attempting to create a mysql database so that I can install Group 
> Office using
> mysqladmin create groupoffice and I keep getting the following errors:
> 
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
> 
> I looked in /tmp and mysql.sock is not there.
> 
> Can someone please tell me what is wrong and what I need to do to 
> correct this?


echo "mysql_enable="YES"" >> /etc/rc.conf
sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start
ls -al /tmp/mysql.sock # If it's still missing, let me know!


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