spideroo

I have an ikonboard forum on my site - and recently got this error page when trying to log in - then after a day or so the forum was back up, but now it is down again with the same error message. Ikonboard CGI Error Ikonboard has exited with the following error: Can\'t connect to mySQL database. Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/tmp/mysql.sock\' (2) This error was reported at: Sources/iDatabase/Driver/mySQL.pm line 55. Please note that your \'real\' paths have been removed to protect your information. I have no idea what this means at all. Is it a problem with the mysql data base - or is it something I have done, or my web hosts? Can someone please tell me what I should do or who I should contact to get this put right? Thanks for your help