I've installed and reinstalled MySQL with the following command line: $ sudo port install mysql5 +server Initially, I had trouble creating the initial mysql database because the /opt/local/temp directory did not exist (and therefore the /opt/ local/temp/mysql5 directory did not exist). Creating these two directories, and making the mysql user the owner of /opt/local/temp/mysql5 allowed me to build the initial database, but sadly it had no data in any of the non-index tables. I went ahead and unistalled mysql5 and reinstalled it, and now I get the following when I try to change the root password: $ mysqladmin -u root password 'newpass' mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/ local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/opt/local/ var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' exists! I verified that mysqld is running through the Activity Monitor. Sure enough, /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock does not exist. In fact, mysqld.sock does not exist anywhere on my hard drive, a fact which I determined by: $ sudo find / -name "*.sock" Elsewhere, I found an instruction to $ touch opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock This command creates an empty file of the correct name; however, when I tried to change the root password, I got: $ mysqladmin -u root password 'newpass' mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/ local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (38)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/opt/local/ var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' exists! Note that only the error number changed. When I stopped and restarted mysql5: $ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/ org.macports.mysql5.plist $ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/ org.macports.mysql5.plist I found that the mysqld.sock was deleted from opt/local/var/run/mysql5/ Does anyone have any ideas about what I'm supposed to do to get a properly functioning MySQL5 installation? Environment: MacPorts version 1.600. I've done a selfupdate before attempting to install MySQL5 Power Mac G4 Mac OS X 10.4.11