Mysql.sock missing

Hi there,

Last night I turned my Mac on after it had run the battery down, and it informed me that my clock was set to a time before 2008. Which was a bit odd, but I just ignored it and carried on with what I was doing.

Today, I try to connect to MySQL, and I get the error message: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

I’ve had a look on line and I’ve checked out a few different places where the .sock file might be (/var/tmp/mysql.sock, /tmp/mysql.sock/, /var/mysql/mysql.sock…) and not only can I not find the .sock file, I can’t even find the mysql folder! Obviously something’s been corrupted when the lappy ran out of juice.

What should I do?

Cheers,
Mike

[SOLVED]

Ok so I think whatever happened to my Mac caused it to stop the MySQL server (which normally starts on start-up). I just had to start it form the System Preferences.