13 Nov
2005
13 Nov
'05
1:48 a.m.
Ian McDonald wrote:
Or as a last resort how do uninstall mysql and start again?
What version of linux do you have?
In most you can do something like: "aptitude reinstall mysql" or" "yum reinstall mysql"
and it should fix it...
Nooooo! *Slowmo dive in front of bullet* Don't uninstall and reinstall just yet. That's simply a socket file. Restarting mysqld should recreate the socket, assuming the daemon is running as a user that has write access to the directory where the socket lives. G.