On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 07:54, A. Lanza wrote: > After installing FC2 i realized that the mysql server version installed > was 3.x. I wanted to install version 4.0, so i got the rpm > package from mysql website and i installed it on my system. > > Now it seems like mysql server is not running. I get no output for the > command "ps -A | grep mysql". Also, when i try to connect to mysql > server using mysql client, i get the following error message: > > ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > It seems like mysql server does not automatically start when i boot up > my computer... how can i start it manually? Where in the filesystem does > mysql server get installed after installing the rpm? I had the same error until I installed the 'client' package MySQL-client-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm Both from mysql.com HTH DaveP
