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kde35

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Registered: 2015-04-13

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running a 2nd instance of mysqld manually (fails because no socket)

Hello, I have mariadb installed and mysqld running with more or less "default configuration".  I would like to run a 2nd instance of mysqld manually.

So I change the datadir, port, socket as is indicated in https://mariadb.com/kb/en/running-multi … processes/ and try

mysqld --datadir=/var/lib/mysql2 --port=3307 --socket=/run/mysqld/mysqld2.sock

I get the error

2021-01-17 11:26:22 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2021-01-17 11:26:22 0 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: No such 
file or directory
2021-01-17 11:26:22 0 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running 
on socket: =/run/mysqld/mysql2.sock ?
2021-01-17 11:26:22 0 [ERROR] Aborting

Would there be a way to get around this?