Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 07:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Nathan,
> 
> On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:17, perlcgi2000 wrote:
> > I'm trying to install mysql on suse 9.3 using apt.
> >
> > It seems to install ok and chkconfig --add mysql
> > works.
> >
> > But when I try mysql start (in etc/init.d) I get:
> >
> > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL
> > server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> >
> > var/lib/mysql is empty. What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> Most likely you were not root when you tried to start MySQL. After it 
> runs the first time, all the necessary files in /var/lib/mysql will be 
> created.
> 
> 
> Assuming you want to have MySQL running whenever your system is up, go 
> to YaST -> System -> System Services (Runlevel) and set the mysql 
> service to be running in runlevels 3 and 5.

Isn't that what chkconfig --add mysql does (as stated above)?

> 
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
> 
> Randall Schulz
> 

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Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998