Hi; It's been a while since I controlled my own server and I'm rusty. Trying to install mysql yum install mysql All looks well. Here's what happens: [root at 13gems www]# mysql ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) [root at 13gems www]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) There's no mysqld in the ps wax. Please advise. beno -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091105/1d721b8a/attachment-0004.html>