mairving — Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:13:50 +0000

That is just part of the MYSQL data structure. You will probably see things like columns.myd, columns.myi, columns.frm. Each table should have all three.

In looking over the documentation for mysql, it appears that there is some kind of a problem with the daemon that is running. I would try doing a couple of things to get it fixed. One try doing a search on google with the error that you are getting. Go through some of the posts of people that have had similar problems and have fixed it. The other thing to try to do is to get on the mysql mailing list and see if you can get it fixed there. I seem to vaguely remember having a similar problem. It seems like chown fixed it but I could be wrong.

nike_guy_man — Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:39:45 +0000

Redhat 6.2...
6.2 was more stable than 7 and Perl and PHP both work now.
at /var/lib/ mysql is found, and there are 3 contents:
directory: mysql
file: parrabal.err
directory: test
if i cd mysql then ls I lots of files ending in .myd, .myi, or .frm
What are these files?

mairving — Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:48:02 +0000

Nike, don't worry about deleting anything. It could be a bit of a RedHat thing. I think that you are using RedHat 7.1, right? See if anything is installed in /var/lib/ ? This is apparently RedHat's default location for mysql.

nike_guy_man — Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:25:10 +0000

Well, with PHP uninstall and reinstall works.
I went over the steps over and over again and over again but it still isn't working.
I have 3 version installed, is there a way to get it down to just 1 version??
Thanks

mairving — Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:02:46 +0000

Your answer to everything should not be to uninstall and re-install. Mysql is installed, but for some reason it is refusing a connection. You just have to be patient and go over the steps again to make sure nothing was left out.

nike_guy_man — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:33:35 +0000

ok...
I have tried versions 3.23 and 3.22 and an RPM
I want to uninstall all of them and start over.
How do I remove them and everything they have done?
Thanks

mairving — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:56:20 +0000

Start here at about step 4.16 and go forward from there. You may have to stop your mysqld daemon first.

nike_guy_man — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:17:08 +0000

What steps?

mairving — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:52:46 +0000

Nothing is wrong with your machine. You are just going to have to go through the steps again.

nike_guy_man — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:05:19 +0000

I tried everything there, but I get the error that /tmp/mysql.sock does not exist
am i doing something wrong or is something wrong with my machine?