title: Error in starting MySQL in Mac OS X 10.6
body: <p>i am trying to run MySQL 5.5.8 in my Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  I'm calling /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe and I get this in the error log...</p>
  
  <pre><code>110124 16:35:36 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64/data
  110124 16:35:36 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64/data/ is case insensitive
  110124 16:35:36 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
  InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
  InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
  InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
  110124 16:35:36  InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
  110124 16:35:36  InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
  110124 16:35:36  InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
  110124 16:35:36  InnoDB: 1.1.4 started; log sequence number 2809411
  110124 16:35:36 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
  110124 16:35:36 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/mysql/mysql.sock ?
  110124 16:35:36 [ERROR] Aborting
  
  110124 16:35:36  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
  110124 16:35:38  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 2809411
  110124 16:35:38 [Note] /usr/local/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
  
  110124 16:35:38 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64/data/MyMacPro.local.pid ended
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is what I have in /etc/my.cnf... wondering if I need to add more settings.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[client]
  socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
  
  [mysqld]
  socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you so much,
  Robert</p>