Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:19:14 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: thanos trompoukis <atr0x23@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysql error Message-ID: <4A477BE2.1040404@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <d4a469990906280612lbed863fx45263c3463094ceb@mail.gmail.com> References: <d4a469990906280612lbed863fx45263c3463094ceb@mail.gmail.com>
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thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am new with FreeBSD and I have a problem with mysql. > > I have 6.2Release i386 > I am running mysql 5.0.27 and It worked perfectly until the time that I > formated /tmp (for some other reason) > and now when I am trying to connect on mysql *I get this:* > > *[root@leonidas:/]$ mysql > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/tmp/mysql.sock2' (38)* > > Ha, I know this, it happened to me once I messed with tmp, and its pretty simple: /tmp has the sticky bit "set". If you forget it, some programs fail mysteriously. So just do a chown -R root:wheel /tmp (just to be safe) and chmod -R 1777 /tmp and all will be fine
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