Re: Further Info on Error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock''

[Mark Ginns]

Thanks for your help on this Sean - in the end the problem turned out to be that mysqld_safe wasn't running correctly - I found a thread in the 2.2.3 chapter http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Mac_OS_X_installation.html which pointed my in the direction of incorrect permissions being set on some of the files I did the following


% cd /usr/local/mysql
% sudo chown -R mysql data
% sudo chgrp -R mysql

and was consequently allowed root access - what was interesting though was that only root accounts appeared to be created no anonymous accounts so I had to manually create user accounts and grant full privileges


Thanks once again for you help