finding mysql

Eric Beversluis econophil at charter.net
Thu Mar 16 13:37:37 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:20 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> According to Add/Remove Application, MySQL has been installed, but I
> don't know how to find it.  
(New install of FC4 this past weekend.)
> 
> When I try just entering 'mysql' command I get this error message:
> 
> [root at sonyc /]# mysql
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> 
> MySQL doesn't seem to be installed in any of the places that my books
> suggest it might be.
> 
> So how do I find it and how do I start the client?
> 
> EB
> 




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