safe_mysqld problem!!

I am not quite sure if I should place this help request here. Anyhow I have installed mysql-server-4.0.22 and its client on my FreeBSD box but the strange thing is I cann’t run the server. I also searched for other forums to find help but it seems I need a file named safe_mysqld to run the daemon. But the point is there is no such file on my machine. This is the error message that I got:



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mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed

error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'

Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!

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I needed mysql to use along “Cacti”.





Thank you