After installing Redhat 3 Enterprise Edition I made sure MySQL was part of the install. When I tried to start MySQL I got the following error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) The /var/lib/mysql directory did not exist. Even after creating the folder, as suggested by this mailing list archives, it didn't help. The folder permissions are root.root. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MySQL from the Redhat RPMs and I still got the error. I even read previous e-mails and found little help. Any suggestions on what to do to make this work? I am at a loss. The following packages are installed: [root@W-pai-2077 mysql]# rpm -qa | grep mysql mysql-3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1 mysql-bench-3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1 php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-5 mysql-devel-3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1 mod_auth_mysql-20030510-1.ent [root@W-pai-2077 mysql]# rpm -qa | grep MySQL MySQL-shared-3.23.58-1 perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3 qt-MySQL-3.1.2-13.4 MySQL-python-0.9.1-6 [root@W-pai-2077 mysql]# -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
