Re: I installed the mysql package

[William Hooper]

Technical said:
>  These are the package I installed
>
>  mysql-3.23.58-4.i386.rpm:   ########################## Done.
>  mysql-bench-3.23.58-4.i386. ########################## Done.
>  mysql-devel-3.23.58-4.i386. ########################## Done.
>  mysql-server-3.23.58-4.i386 ########################## Done.
>  [root@sojourn lib]# mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword#@@'
>
>  I get this ysqladmin: 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: 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You never started the server.

service mysqld start

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William Hooper