Re: [PHP] phpMyAdmin install error

2001-08-22 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 11:58 AM 8/22/2001, Jay Paulson wrote: the socket has to be made by the mysql deamon. Read the mysql docs on mysql.org search for mysql.sock. mysql will not work if that files is deletedif you run redhat or other distros make sure that /tmp and /var/tmp aren't cleaned at each reboot o

Re: [PHP] phpMyAdmin install error

2001-08-22 Thread Jay Paulson
I had the EXACT same problem... what you need to do is find where the 'mysql.sock' file is on your computer (sometimes it's at /var/lib/mysql.sock or some place like that).. then what you need to do is create the mysql.sock file in the /tmp directory (for some reason it wouldn't let me copy over t