Hi - I'm using SuSE 8.0. I've used YAST2 to install the MySQL packages. I tried running the safe_mysqld script as root but it wouldn't work because I'd forgotten to set up the mysql tables with mysql_install_db. So I run mysql_install_db and the tables all seem correctly set up in /var/lib/mysql. But now I get another error. My mysqld.log reads like this : 020922 10:24:25 mysqld started 020922 10:24:25 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 020922 10:24:25 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ? 020922 10:24:25 Aborting 020922 10:24:25 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 020922 10:24:25 mysqld ended Well, I don't have a mysql.sock anywhere on my system, nor is there any instance of mysql running. It seems like a permissions problem, but I'm running safe_mysqld as root. Other ways of starting mysql (eg rcmysql start) fail equally. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to start the mysql server? - Ken