Technical said:
These are the package I installed
mysql-3.23.58-4.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
mysql-bench-3.23.58-4.i386. ########################## Done.
mysql-devel-3.23.58-4.i386. ########################## Done.
mysql-server-3.23.58-4.i386 ########################## Done.
[root@sojourn lib]# mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword#@@'
I get this ysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You never started the server.
service mysqld start
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William Hooper