MySQL & Fink

[taewon]

Hi!

First of all I'm a very newbie doing UNIX-things...
3 Month ago I installed MySQL manually (in using Marc Liyanage's Binary package) and it worked perfectly! However I installed recently Fink and several binary & source packages (XFree86, WindowMaker, Gimp and so forth) and MySQL does not work anymore. It says: "ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61)" What's wrong?

Thanx in advance!
Bye!

 

[Marion Delgado]

some variation of this is required:

sudo /sw/bin/safe_mysqld &

then if you do:

ps -Uroot

you should see a safe_mysqld or mysqld process.