Nevermind,
I fixed it. I just made a symbolic link from /var/fdsaf/mysql.sock to /tmp/mysql.sock. obviously removing the one in /tmp first. although I'm still a little wierded at the fact that I can't shut down mysqld.
This is what I am getting
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154-229-58-66:/var/lib/mysql # mysqladmin shutdown -u root -p
Enter password:
154-229-58-66:/var/lib/mysql # mysqladmin ping -u root -p
Enter password:
mysqld is alive...
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