artspace:/home/hall# mysqladmin -u user -p create phpgroupware Enter password: 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! artspace:/home/hall# mysqld 070507 13:50:21 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 070507 13:50:21 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 Debian etch distribution