MySQL Deamon - is it running?

[David Hoffman]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:33:11 -0600, Jay Paulson <jpaulson at sedl.org> wrote:
> After installing Fedora C3 I went to connect to MySQL.  I got an error
> message about the mysql.sock file missing.  Upon further investigation
> it sure enough was missing as well as the 'mysql' script to
> start|stop|restart the deamon in the /etc/init.d directory.  I've done
> ps awx to see if it was even running and sure enough it is not.  I did
> rpm -q mysql and sure enough it is installed.  Is there something I'm
> missing here?
> 

You installed the client, but not the server.
Try: yum install mysql-server