Mysql setup

[Midiean]

I am working on setting up a postfix email server with Currier IMAP and Mysql with a squirl mail front end. I am currently having difficulties with the mysql end of the process.

I am installing using the source, not the rpm package since i want to get a feel for how to do this way, and I have been unsuccessful at running:

./mysql start

the error i get is

Can't connet to local MySQL server through socke '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)

Also, according to the install readme, I need the client access libraries. I have been out to mysql's website and I have been unable to locate these files. I have found a tag that will setup only the client access files,

--without-server

but i'm not sure if this will not allow me to setup both the libraries and the server with an additional tag.

Thanks for the help

 

[ericbrunson]

mysql is the client, not the server. mysqld is the server, but I don't think it takes a "start" command. You need to read the documentation more closely.

 

[Midiean]

was having the same problem with running mysqld with the same paramaters. I have since dumped the old installation for a new one. this was a new install so no data was lost. However, i would like to know why this was happening, if anyone has any ideas

 

[ericbrunson]

I think you were just doing it wrong. I mean, the right application (mysqld) wasn't working, so you decided to just randomly use another one (mysql)? That's like, I was trying to make a cake but I didn't have any flour, so I decided to use flowers. They sound the same and have a lot of the same letters, but they're two different things.