Re: Naive User
pinnerite <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 09:18:02 +0000
| Newsgroups | comp.databases.mysql |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:44:44 +0100 "J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 That still doesn't answer my question. What directs MySQL to look to var/run/mysqld to locate the socket file? Alan -- Mint 20.3, kernel 5.4.0-95-generic, Cinnamon 5.2.7 running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.