Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to start it with /etc/init.d/mysqld start Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. Chris >>>edward.morrison at gmail.com 09/04/05 5:02 pm >>> I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal mysql.sock. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any assistance. Ed CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050904/d5d55db4/attachment-0005.html>