How to restart mysql server?

Question

Every time I restart MySQL server

bitnami@xxx:/$ sudo opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start server

 

WWarning: World-writable config file '/opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf' is ignored
Warning: World-writable config file '/opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf' is ignored
121120 12:30:18 mysqld_safe Logging to '/opt/bitnami/mysql/data/mysqld.log'.
121120 12:30:18 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /opt/bitnami/mysql/data
121120 12:30:20 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /opt/bitnami/mysql/data/ip-10-136-14-170.pid ended
/opt/bitnami/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql  could not be started

The server responds with the following error:

(2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)")

Please tell me what I have to do fix this issue.

Answer 1

If mysql is installed as a service (which is most of the time) you can do service mysqld restart or /etc/init.d/mysqld restart.

You can also use start, stop or reload instead of restart.