[ic] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

[Howell Silverman]

Can someone help me understand whats wrong here. The error.log says that it
cant connect to the socket..
I have two catalogs one using the standard interchange DB and another one
i'm trying to put up using MySQL.  All aspects of the catalog using the
standard db works fine. The MySQL one I can't get to startup.

Using MySQL 3.23.30 and Perl 5.6. DBD and DBI installed.


The Perms. on var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock is :

[root@ecom interchange]# ls -als /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
   0 srwxrwxrwx    1 mysql    mysql           0 Jan  6 17:38
/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:03 -0500] - - Low traffic settings.
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:03 -0500] - - Calling UI....
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:04 -0500] - - ...UI is loaded....
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:04 -0500] - - Interchange V4.6.1
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:04 -0500] - - Using default DBM database.
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:05 -0500] - - Using MySQL,
DSN=dbi:mysql:test_silic
on.
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:06 -0500] - - silicon config error: connect
failed
(create) -- Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/m
ysql.sock' (111)
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:06 -0500] - - silicon: config error. Skipping.
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:06 -0500] - - START server (7795) (INET and
UNIX)
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:07 -0500] - - Accepting connections from
localhost|
127\.0\.0\.1
- - - [07/January/2001:19:26:07 -0500] - - START server (7797) (INET and
UNIX)