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06-06-2002, 03:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: US
Posts: 19
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start mysql
when i start the mysql , it pop up the following.
" ERROR 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (239) "
how to solve it? Thanks.
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06-06-2002, 03:25 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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well do you actaully HAVE the server running in the background? "/etc/init.d/mysqld start" i expect.. and you HAVE got it installed?
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06-06-2002, 07:02 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Distribution: Redhat, Slackware
Posts: 78
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Or for those non SysV init people who dared to compile MySQL by hand, /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
Substitute /usr/local/mysql/bin for the path to your safe_mysqld binary.
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06-06-2002, 08:00 AM
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Dalec, HU
Distribution: Redhat 7.3
Posts: 696
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before that
tail /var/log/messages wouldn't hurt either
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