Bug #33684 mysqladmin error
Submitted: 4 Jan 2008 7:23 Modified: 4 Jan 2008 7:38
Reporter: Chinmayee Nagaraju Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Errors Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.45 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[4 Jan 2008 7:23] Chinmayee Nagaraju 
Description:
I am working on a CentOS 4 machine.
IN the process of setting up a new mysql password during the BOINC server installations i am getting this error.

>mysqladmin -h localhost -u root password mysqlrootpw 
>mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!

How to repeat:
this can be repeated by successive trials
[4 Jan 2008 7:38] Valeriy Kravchuk 
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