From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 15 03:18:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A9016A400 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6236B43D48 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k3F3Ig45079530; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:18:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:18:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: jekillen Message-ID: <20060415031842.GA89464@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: quick solution addemdum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:18:43 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 14), jekillen said: > In addition to the mysql, quick solution question: > the error is literally: > ERROR 2002 [HY000]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61) Looks like mysql has crashed. Restart it and it will recreate the socket file. If it refuses to start, look at the err file in /var/db/mysql . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com