Missing /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock file

Question

I\'m trying to access mysql and when I run the mysql command, I get the following.

[root@ip-10-229-65-166 tpdatabase-1.8.0.28356]# mysql

ERR

Answer 1

Before hitting mysql on command prompt make sure your correct my.cnf configuration file is in placed and set the permission of etc folder as

chmod -R 777

etc folder as below list to avoid

error MySQL - ERROR 2002 (HY000): e.g /etc/my.cnf, /etc/mysql/my.cnf, $MYSQL_HOME/my.cnf [datadir]/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf