From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 4:35:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349A437B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 04:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fixx.co.za (gemini.fixx.co.za [196.34.165.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6751743E4A for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 04:35:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fixx@fixx.co.za) Received: from [196.34.165.222] (helo=gemini.fixx.co.za) by fixx.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18LN9P-000BKX-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:36:43 +0200 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:36:43 +0200 (SAST) From: Wayne Swart To: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Mysql problem Message-ID: <20021209143337.I223-100000@gemini.fixx.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day ppl I have installed mysql323-server from the ports without any command line arguments on freebsd 4.7. i start the sql server by running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysqld.sh start the server seems to start fine, but as soon as i try to connect to it, it gives the following error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) the file /tmp/mysql.sock does not exsist though can someone please help me with this? thanks Wayne In a world with no boundaries, who needs gates? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message