mysql troubles

[Jeff Wirth]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:15:39 -0600, Dennis Olvany
<dennisolvany at gmail.com> wrote:
> just installed it and having trouble getting it going
> fresh mysql4.1 install on fbsd5.3
> 
> bsd# mysqladmin flush-privileges
> 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!
> bsd# mysql_install_db --user=mysql
> Installing all prepared tables
> Fill help tables

First, how did mysql come to be on your box... ports, package or source?

-jw