On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:56, Robin Kopetzky wrote: > Good Evening! > > I have installed Mysql from RedHat 8.0 and am having difficulties starting > mysql. I check the my.cnf file and it appears fine as all files it calls for > are in the right directories. When I attempt to start mysql, I get a cannot > connect through mysql.sock. What is causing this or put more simply, where > did I screw up?? Where is it looking for mysql.sock? I believe with rpm based install it should be in /var/lib/mysql. if it's looking in tmp just do a symlink to /tmp/mysql.sock and that should take care of that prob. John Coder -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php