Re: Naive User
"J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:44:44 +0100
| Newsgroups | comp.databases.mysql |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 15/01/2022 23.56, pinnerite wrote: > When I try to start MySQL from a Linux Mint 20.3 terminal, it returns this: > > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > > I cannot find any configuration file that points to that address. > > How does MySQL know to look there? > The mysql daemon hasn't been started sudo systemctl start mysql if you want it to be automatically started after each reboot, then run this: sudo systemctl enable mysql -- //Aho