Fresh install of FC3 and the first thing I did was subscribe to the list, so when I caught this thread I was excited because I also need to setup MySQL ... so I followed the instructions:
Check whether mysql is install just issue rpm -qa|grep -i mysql
[root@spr1-derb3-3-0-cust203 sbin]# rpm -qa|grep -i mysql perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-5 mod_auth_mysql-20030510-5 mysql-bench-3.23.58-14 qt-MySQL-3.3.3-8 php-mysql-4.3.10-3.2 mysql-3.23.58-14 mysql-server-3.23.58-14 MySQL-python-0.9.2-4 mysql-devel-3.23.58-14 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-9
... that worked ok
to start mysql server (root) /etc/init.d/mysql start
[root@spr1-derb3-3-0-cust203 init.d]# mysql start ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
... oops .... what is happening plz?
You did not follow the instructions carefully enough.
Changing directory to /etc/init.d and running "mysql" is not the same as running "/etc/init.d/mysql" because the "current directory" is not in root's path. So you have run /usr/bin/mysql instead of /etc/init.d/mysql
If you want to run something in the current directory, be explicit about it:
# ./mysql start
This stops the search of directories in your path and runs the file from the current directory (".").
Paul.
