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woohoo... it's working now. The problem was that it was looking for socket mysql.sok, but when I started the server, it created a socket called mysqld.sok. I had to manually modify the my.cnf file. Thank you sleipnir214 for all the help, I couldn't do it without all that. another thing I...

In /etc/passwd nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/:sbin/nologin ANOTHER LINE: postgres:x:26:26:PostgreSQL Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash the directory "mysql" is under /var/lib/mysql How do i check the permissions on the directory if it's 660 or not?

How do I check to see if I added user "mysql"?

When I fist installed RedHat, I didn't do anything other than "/etc/init.d/mysql start", and I didn't get any error message about the socket.

user mysql? don't think so. How do i check? do i need to add group also? "groupadd mysql" "useradd -g mysql mysql"

Yes I did.

Do I need to run the mysql_install_db script? I am reading some other posts, trying to see if other people having same problem. Did I do something wrong when I upgraded it? In the mysqld.log file, it shows that when I run one of the updates, the client one i beleive, gives me a warning...

mysql.com download links. downloaded from Univercity of Wissconsin's FTP server.

I know I install server, client, and one another one. Typed: "rpm -qa | grep -i mysql" Got: "perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-4 MySQL-shared-4.0.20-0 MySQL-server-4.0.20-0 mod_auth_mysql-20030510-4.1 MySQL-client-4.0.20-0 php-mysql-4.3.4-11" Did I install...

typed: "rpm -qa | grep mysql" got: "mod_auth_mysql-20030510-4.1 php-mysql-4.3.4-11" Should it automatically creat the mysql.sok when i start the server? Is this what you type to start the server"/etc/init.d/mysql start"? If I can't fix this problem, how do I uninstall or go back...

When I installed RedHat, I picked MySQL server and all the related programs. Should I just go back to version 3.23? It was working. :) But problem is I dont know how to go back, or how to uninstall it in Linux. I am a newbie. :(

I just downloaded the 4.0 standard mysql-standard-4.0.20-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz and installed it, still having the socket problem. but this time what i type "rpm -g mysql" it shows "RPM version 4.3.1" then i started "/etc/init.d/mysql start" then "mysqladmin version" same error as before, want...

after I typed "mysql -qa | grep mysql" it gives me this "mysql: unknown option '-a'

I just upgraded from 3.23 to 4.0. Downloaded mysql-server-4.0.20-0.i386, MySQL-shared-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm and MySQL-client-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm. then I did: rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh MySQL-shared-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh MySQL-client-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm then i manually killed...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Windows_installation.html mysql.com has a manual,it's helpful.