mysql.sock error

[JohanK]

Hi there, I really need some help setting up mySQL.
I'm running redhat enteprise linux 3.1 and the following rpm's are installed,

mysql-3.23.58-16.RHEL3.1
libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-5
mysql-devel-3.23.58-16.RHEL3.1

Now my problem is that every time I try to connect to mysql I get the following error:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Thanks
Johan Kestlmeier

[imu]

hello john,
mysql.sock file is used to TCP/IP connection so make the softlink in /tmp

ln -s /var/lib/bin/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock


/tmp is change as per your system requirement.