Actually, I was the one asking the question about this earlier this 
week.  It did not get resolved.  I just didn't have any more time to ask 
about it, or work on it.

Anyway, as of 5 minutes ago, I fixed it by myself.  It was being started 
under the 'mysql' user/group which didn't have permissions on the 
directories, ie couldn't create the UNIX socket.  It was burning CPU 
time ~94% so I had to fix it today.  Thought maybe someone would have 
had a quick answer.

Roderick

Mike wrote:
> I believe there was a thread on this problem earlier this week or last.
> Maybe the archives might produce something for you?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:03:15PM -0700, Roderick Ford wrote:
>  any mysql commands to connect or get status (i.e. mysqladmin version) 
>  produce the following two lines:
>  
>  ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
>  '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>  
>  
>  chkconfig shows mysqld is on
>  ps -el  shows safe_mysqld and mysqld are running
>  
>  
>  perhaps mysql.sock did not get opened ??
>  or, vmware interferes ??
>  or...
>  
>  i'm at a loss...what do you think I should check?  it used to work.
>  
>  Roderick
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