From the Unix command line, the following is displayed:

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ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Do you know why? It worked find last week.

Thanks,

BV

I have tried to startup the database and still doesn't work. Any ideas why?

stgssl-mysql[43]% mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/u01/app/myqsl/mysql5044/my.cnf --user=mysql --log-warnings &
[1] 2994
stgssl-mysql[44]% Could not open required defaults file: /u01/app/myqsl/mysql5044/my.cnf
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
Could not open required defaults file: /u01/app/myqsl/mysql5044/my.cnf
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /u01/app/mysql/mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.44sp1a-solaris9-sparc-64bit/data
STOPPING server from pid file /u01/app/mysql/mysql-enterprise-gpl-5.0.44sp1a-solaris9-sparc-64bit/data/stgssl.pid

thanks,
BV

Seems fairly obvious : What is in your my.cnf? Usually this resides in the /etc directory but i guess you're using your own one for a special config. Copy it into here and i'll see what we can do for you.