ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

Question

I installed MySQL on Mac OS X Mountain Lion with homebrew install mysql, but when I tried mysql -u root I got the following error:

Answer 1

Ough, that took me a while to figure out. I saw it in a comment. After installing mysql using brew, and starting the service (perhaps using sudo brew services start mysql) then run:

$ mysqld

And MySQL should be running for your thereafter.