List the listening ports and check if mysql is listed on it.

$ netstat -tln | grep mysql

If you cannot find the port number for mysql view my.cnf file to see if you can find the port number. If you see a line "skip-networking" try commenting out the line and then restart mysql daemon.

$ vi /etc/my.cnf

[mysqld] set-variable=local-infile=0 datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock # Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x # clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package). old_passwords=1 skip-networking

[mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe] log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

$ service mysqld restart