Re: I installed the mysql package

["William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 earthlink net>]

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