Fedora Core 3 and MySql

[Amy Stinson]

On 11 Mar 2005 at 15:55, a a wrote:
> > to start mysql server (root)
> > /etc/init.d/mysql start
> 
> [root at 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?

SeLinux.

I about went crazy trying to figure out what was keeping me from accessing MySQL until 
I disabled it.  You should run yum to update the security policy and then re-enable it.

Tzaia