From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-04-08T08:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: "Rolling with Ruby" for Linux?

In article <20050407213921.GA31058@freeze.org>,
Jim Freeze  <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
>* James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> [2005-04-08 06:24:31 +0900]:
>
>> On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm wondering if anyone has modified Curt's tutorial for use on Linux?
>> 
>> Have you tried the command-line client installed with MySQL?
>> 
>> $ mysql -u username -p
>> 
>> See if that gets you anywhere.
>> 
>> James Edward Gray II
>
>Or, try adding your machine to the list of allowed hosts
>in the mysql table.
>

I figured out why mysql_administrator wouldn't connect.  It was trying to 
connect through a non-existant socket file at: /var/lib/mysql (somewhere 
in there).  The actual socket file was in /tmp/mysql.sock  Now 
mysql_administrator seems to be running OK.

Phil