# Error

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error/13703>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 17, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error/13703 "2003-02-17T03:54:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Alex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alex)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error/13703/1 "2003-02-17T03:54:48Z")

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has any one else recived the error message??? i thougt for a whil that i might have to do some thing productive. that scared me.:-\

Warning: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/virtual/site37/fst/var/www/html/admin/db\_mysql.php on line 38

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