@lex

Allright, just tried to find the my.cnf but onlky found my:huge, _large, _medium and _small.cnf\'s wich are somekind of presets for the my.cnf. There is no my.cnf at my system... How do I find out about anither app that is using the port 3306? Thx @lex

Thx for your help. I will try this out. But how did that happen, that another app is usign the sql\'s default port? Maybe, because I didn\'t shut down the db? How do I find out what app uses port 3306? Many questions :shock: Thx @lex

Hi there. I am running my mysql database on a apachewebserver (Mac OS X) and worked with it for a couple of days. But then yesterday, as I started my server and wanted to connect to my own message board (for wich I created a database) it said it couldn\'t connect to the database. So I was running the terminal and treif to connect with my dp the ways I did befor, by just entering \'usr/local/bin/mysql\' But got he error message : ERROR 2002: Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/tmp/mysql.sock\' (61) And in the error.log : 031006 07:51:06 mysqld started 031006 7:51:06 Can\'t start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use 031006 7:51:06 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ? 031006 7:51:06 Aborting 031006 7:51:06 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 031006 07:51:06 mysqld ended So it lookes like there is already a server or a db running??? I don\'t understand? How can I connect to the existing db, or reactivate it? What did I do wrong? As I mentioned before I am new to this and havn\'t much knowledge. Thx in advance @lex