MySQL gurus

[The Dawg]

How can I fix this error:

connect failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) at .....

The Dawg

[battuss]

Prolly you have to contact your host

[Energy Hosting]

try this
/etc/init.d/mysql.server start

or just reboot your server.
this error usually means that MySQL server is not running.

[Simon]

Energy, mysql doesn't create that by default...


your safest bet is this

safe_mysqld &
type that in the prompt...
you can add prefix's to that to spice it up a notch... like the amount of connections mysql should take.. and how many seconds for each connection before terminating it and etc...

[The Dawg]

Thanks -

[Energy Hosting]

Simon, if he can do that than it usually means that he has root access and you don't want to run MySQL as root so the command he needs to use is usually.

safe_mysqld --user=mysql &