connecting to mysql from cygwin

Question

I can successfully connect to MySQL from a DOS prompt, but when I try to connect from cygwin, it just hangs.

$/cygdrive/c/Program\\ Files/MySQL/MySQL\\ Serve         


        

Answer 1

Found this question today 2018-03-18 looking for some answers to

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")

The file /etc/my.conf references config files in /etc/my.cnf.d I added this to /etc/my.cnf.d/client.cnf:

[client]
host=127.0.0.1
protocol=tcp

After that I was able to access the local windows MySQL instance from a cygwin terminal using mysql -u root -p