hi ya i-cable > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, i-cable wrote: > > > dear sir > > i am a new user in debian, i was install mysql in ".deb" > > and, .../safe_mysqld & -- .../mysql -u root > > > > " ERROR 2002: Can't connet to local Mysql server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'(111)" when i got that error.. i did: cd /tmp ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock . stop and restart mysqld have fun alvin