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help in trying to run mysql error like error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)'

Asked by ulto in MySQL Server

Tags: connect, 13, error, local, mysql

ok im trying to get mysql installed so that it can log snort packets
im having trouble running mysql. from red hat 9
I installed mysql from a binary format and it wasnt working at all so i uninstalled it (basiclly just a delete)
then i installed it from source but the same error keeps coming up when i do an ./mysqladmin -u root mypassword

the error i get is

./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (11
1)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!

and yes mysql.sock does exist but it may be that there is and ownership problem here as i am the root user and mysql.sock is under mysql user and group ownership

i think mysql is running, i do a ps -ax | grep mysql and i get a
root 4353 0.0 0.1 3572 620 pts/0 S 16:34 0:00 grep mysql

is this the same as mysqld?

also in the error log i get the message below when i try and start mysqld manually

040302 16:34:17 mysqld started
040302 16:34:17 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: See http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html for installation help.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
040302 16:34:17 mysqld ended

so any ideas what im doing wrong!?
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Zone: MySQL Server
Tags: connect, 13, error, local, mysql
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