Cannot find mysql.sock

Question

I just had to re-install mysql and I am having a problem starting it up. It cannot find the socket (mysql.sock). The problem is that neither can I. In my Mac OS X 10.4 te

Answer 1

The original questions seems to come from confusion about a) where is the file, and b) where is it being looked for (and why can't we find it there when we do a locate or grep). I think Alnitak's point was that you want to find where it was linked to - but grep will not show you a link, right? The file doesn't live there, since it's a link it is just a pointer. You still need to know where to put the link.

my sock file is definitely in /tmp and the ERROR I am getting is looking for it in /var/lib/ (not just /var) I have linked to /var and /var/lib now, and I still am getting the error "Cannot connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/lib/mysql.sock' (2)".

Note the (2) after the error.... I found on another thread that this means the socket might be indeed attempted to be used, but something is wrong with the socket itself - so to shut down the machine - completely - so that the socket closes. Then a restart should fix it. I tried this, but it didn't work for me (now I question if I restarted too quickly? really?) Maybe it will be a solution for someone else.