mysql can't connect 2002 & socket error

peptide one peptide1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 06:13:23 UTC 2006


Hello all,

I've been scanning these mail lists for a solution and have tried many
things, but am still not able to start the MySQL 5.0 database on my FreeBSD
5.4 server. I've been working on this for two days and have never had so
many problems getting a database to start.

The first thing I did after installation was copy the /support-files/my-
medium.cnf
to
/etc/my.cnf
and  enter the appropriate information.
I also created a "dummy" /tmp/mysql.sock file and configured permissions.
I try starting the server as user "mysql" and it fails. Trying to su or
login as mysql fails with a 'miscofiguration' error.

All this has happened after I've deinstalled and cleaned two previous
installations.

This is getting to be much more work than it should be.

Can anyone help? It would certainly be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


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