------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015 09:43:24 PM +0100 > From: Graham Wilman <gwillman at hotmail.co.uk> > > Hi > > Total newby to centos I am currently assisting a community radio > station set up in the Uk we are using a server based system for > our playout software, unfortunately at the moment one of our > client servers is experience the above error I came across the > error on our main server a few weeks ago and found the solution > just by reinstalling the MySQL db but I have tried to deploy the > same fix on our client server otherwise known as studio-b client > but unfortunately this has not solved the problem any assistance > with this would be very much appreciated. > All the best > Graham Wilman When you get this error have you confirmed that mysqld is actually running, e.g., with a "ps"? What is the output from: /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status Normally the socket file is: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (note the capitalization). If mysql is running, check the name (including capitalization) of the socket directory/file. If it's (the standard) lowercase, then check the client software configuration to see if there's something pointing to the mixed-case form that your error is showing. [The default location for the mysql configuration file is /etc/my.cnf, but it can be in other locations.] - Richard