ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Issue
- The mysql comand giving an error "ERROR 2002 (HY000):"
[root@rhel7 ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
[root@rhel7 ~]#
- How to change default mysql socket path?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- rh-mariadb103-mariadb
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