Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (38)

Question

I am having a big problem trying to connect to mysql. When I run:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql start

I have the following error :

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Answer 1

you can always start mysql server by specifying the location of the mysql.sock file using the --socket option like

mysql --socket=/var/mysql/mysql.sock 

This will work even if the location of socket file in specified in a different location in the my.cnf file.