I believe there was a thread on this problem earlier this week or last.
Maybe the archives might produce something for you?


On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:03:15PM -0700, Roderick Ford wrote:
 any mysql commands to connect or get status (i.e. mysqladmin version) 
 produce the following two lines:
 
 ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
 '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
 
 
 chkconfig shows mysqld is on
 ps -el  shows safe_mysqld and mysqld are running
 
 
 perhaps mysql.sock did not get opened ??
 or, vmware interferes ??
 or...
 
 i'm at a loss...what do you think I should check?  it used to work.
 
 Roderick
 
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