finding mysql

Eric Beversluis econophil at charter.net
Thu Mar 16 13:45:00 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:29 -0500, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > According to Add/Remove Application, MySQL has been installed, but I
> > don't know how to find it.
> > 
> > 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)
> 
> Make sure you also install the mysq-server package as well.  Once
> installed be sure to start it and then try running the mysql command.
> 
> /jt
> 
According to my Add/Remove Apps, mysql-server is installed. However the
command 'mysqld' returns the error message:

[root at sonyc ~]# mysqld
-bash: mysqld: command not found

Same happens at root or at my prompts.

EB




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