ok last night after i headed off to bed something went wrong with my dedicated server mysql completely messed up some how not sure how but it did, i re-installed it but now im just getting these two errors im completely lost and i dont know what to do from here, ERRORS : Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. Starting MySQL: [FAILED] [root@cl-45 ~]# mysqladmin -u root password ****** mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists! Any help would be great, thanks Rick