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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock'

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)


mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!

The connector is looking for your socket in the wrong place. The easiest way to solve this problem is to create a symbolic link so that the socket file appears to be in right place.

e.g.

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cd /var
sudo mkdir mysql
cd mysql
sudo ln -s /private/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock