mailserver:/home/guldhammer# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

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mailserver:/home/guldhammer# lsof -i :3306
COMMAND  PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
mysqld  1866 mysql    3u  IPv4   3550       TCP localhost.localdomain:mysql (LISTEN)

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mailserver:/home/guldhammer# ls -l /var/run/
totalt 100
drwxr-xr-x  2 amavis      amavis      4096 2007-02-14 00:10 amavis
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 apache-ssl.pid
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 2006-07-28 11:07 apache2
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 apache.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 atd.pid
drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav      clamav      4096 2007-02-14 00:10 clamav
drwxr-xr-x  3 daemon      daemon      4096 2007-02-14 00:10 courier
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 crond.pid
----------  1 root        root           0 2007-02-14 00:10 crond.reboot
drwxr-x---  2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 2005-01-26 23:45 exim4
srwx------  1 www-data    root           0 2007-02-14 00:10 gcache_port
drwxr-xr-x  2 identd      nogroup     4096 2007-02-13 16:02 identd
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 inetd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 klogd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 lpd.pid
drwxr-xr-x  2 mysql       root        4096 2007-02-14 11:53 mysqld
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 2005-03-23 19:04 pppconfig
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 2007-02-14 00:10 proftpd
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 proftpd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 rpc.statd.pid
-rw-------  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 snmpd.pid
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 2006-11-01 00:03 sshd
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 sshd.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 root        root           5 2007-02-14 00:10 syslogd.pid
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 2005-04-07 18:37 usb
-rw-rw-r--  1 root        utmp        4224 2007-02-14 11:52 utmp

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mailserver:/home/guldhammer# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
        Please take a look at the syslog.
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!