Can't connect to local MySQL server

[Jose Borquez]

Odhiambo Washington wrote:

>* On 13/12/05 23:20 -0800, Jose Borquez wrote:
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>>I am attempting to create a mysql database so that I can install Group 
>>Office using
>>mysqladmin create groupoffice and I keep getting the following errors:
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>>mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>>error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
>>'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
>>Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
>>
>>I looked in /tmp and mysql.sock is not there.
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>>Can someone please tell me what is wrong and what I need to do to 
>>correct this?
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>echo "mysql_enable="YES"" >> /etc/rc.conf
>sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start
>ls -al /tmp/mysql.sock # If it's still missing, let me know!
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Thanks for the help, but I figured it out.
Jose