[rt-users] rt newbie confused

[Yan Fitterer]

Just done an install - rtadmin doesnt run (see below)

rt version 1.0.7
Perl version: 5.6.0
mysql version: 3.23.22
Linux 2.2.16-22smp
Redhat 7.0 with updates

rtadmin -queue create aqueue
gives me:
Mysql->connect(database=rt;host=localhost) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL 
server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) at 
/opt/rt/lib/rt/database.pm line 24
[connectdb] Database connect failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server 
through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
Compilation failed in require at /opt/rt/lib/rt/database/admin.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/rt/bin/rtmux.pl line 40.

I can do a 'mysql -u root -p -h localhost rt' sucessfully, and issue sql 
commands. Only sql error I can find is in /var/lib/mysql/host.err :
010227 21:34:25  mysqld started
010227 21:34:25  /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file 
'/var/run/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13)
/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections

I'm a complete martian with mysql - so I don't know if the above is relevant.

Anybody run into something similar? Maybe my perl-sql modules don't work 
properly? Not quite sure how to check version there.

Any clues?
Thanks
Yan
PS - I did look for list archives, but failed to find them if they do exist!

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Yan Fitterer
IT Manager, Royal Academy of Music
E-mail : y.fitterer at ram.ac.uk
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