Hi all,

First of all, I am a super newbie at Linux and I am falling in love with it.


I have been trying to install Mysql for 2 days but I can't get it to work. I installed Mysql 3.23.38 something like that. It comes with the distribution. I am able to install it but when I try to create a root password like this: mysqladmin -u root password 'mypsw'
I get this message:
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mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ( 2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!
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I try to locate mysql.sock and it does not exists..

So after searching hours for a solution I just cant find one. I had to uninstall Mysql. I tried two other Mysql versions 5.0.x and 4.1.x they both does not work. I am able to install them but when I type this in the terminal mysqladmin
it say bash error or file does not exists. So I use locate try to find it. Nope, I can't find it. Wow I can't do anything now. I am tired. Can someone please give me some advices. Please treat like a newbie and provide me examples of shell commands.

thank you very much

In Slackware you do this as root.
# mysql_install_db
# /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start
# mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Then you can log in as the user root with the password you specified.

Some links are below.
http://www.pantz.org/database/mysql/mysqlcommands.shtml
http://www.danchan.com/feature/2000/...sql/mysql1.htm

If you are using redhat or a varient, here is some good easy to read tutorials.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ide/index.html

Two questions based on what you wrote :
A) when you go the error regarded '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' did you do as it said in the error and make sure that mysqld was running ?

B) If you open a terminal and just type "mysql" and press the TAB key twice do you see a bunch of output (approx. 30 commands), or does it just do nothing ?

Yes Yes Yes, I got it to work. I typed in the terminal
mysql_install_db and it gave me instruction to setup root password and it works.
Wow your guys are good

thanks alot

Nah, I just beat my head against the wall for a while.

Us Slackers are just lucky. We read the script that will start mysql at boot and find the following info:Or we just read the user manual which can be found at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

i am not sure ... you could just use gaim insteed ,

m-s,