[Gllug] MySQL 3.23.41 on RH7.2 - 2nd attempt

[Simon Stewart]

First things first: you need to start the mysqld before you can
connect and change the password (which is a bit of a gotcha for
newbies) Also, until you have set a password, you can connect withot
using the "-p" parameter, so your first "Can't connect" error is to
be expected.

Before you try and connect do a 

ps auxw | grep mysqld

and check that there's something actually running. You might also want
to check that there's a "/var/lib/mysql/" directory too.

Cheers,

Simon

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