Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Posted by Siddharth on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Siddharth
Published on 2012-11-02T03:30:17Z Indexed on 2012/11/02 11:18 UTC
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My mysql installation was screwed up. I uninstalled and installed it multiple times. But I kept getting a hang or a error "cant connect". I now finally have it running with sudo -u mysql mysqld. How do I get mysqld to run at startup, and why do I need to run it as user mysql. Can I change it to run as root ?

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             230G  5.5G  213G   3% /
none                  2.0G  268K  2.0G   1% /dev
none                  2.0G  3.2M  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
none                  2.0G   92K  2.0G   1% /var/run
none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /var/lock
none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5             230G   20G  199G   9% /home

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