RE: [cobalt-users] Can't connect to mysql through phpmyadmin (mysql.sock problem)

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

||>To see if mysql is running type:
||>ps -ef | grep mysql
||>
||>If mysql  isn't that is IMHO why you don't have .sock file :)
||>(correct me
||>if I'm wrong)
||>
||>to start mysql:
||>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start
||>
||>to stop mysql:
||>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop
||>
||>to view of it is running:
||>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status
||>
||>Good luck,
||>
||>Oblix

Use these instructions (great instructions, btw!) to stop and start MySQL.
I am pretty sure that if MySQL has lost its sock in the dryer somewhere,
just restarting MySQL will make a new sock.
*Pretty* sure.




Carrie Bartkowiak
Administrator, All @bout Choice
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