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Hello all! I'm using MacOS Sonoma 14.5 and trying to login in mariadb via terminal. However, when I execute

```sh mariadb -uroot -password ```

It is returning

```error ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) ```

I searched online and the solution to this would be to generate a `mysql.sock` file by executing

```sh brew services start mariadb

  1. OR brew services restart mariadb ```

However, I tried it, as you can see below:

```sh $ brew services restart mariadb Stopping `mariadb`... (might take a while)

> Successfully stopped `mariadb` (label: homebrew.mxcl.mariadb)

> Successfully started `mariadb` (label: homebrew.mxcl.mariadb)

```

Still, not any `mysql.sock` file is generated inside the `/tmp` folder and I can't login in the `mariadb` database.

```sh victorcosta@Victors-MacBook-Pro:/tmp $ cd /tmp victorcosta@Victors-MacBook-Pro:/tmp $ ls com.apple.launchd.6mj6GfdTiF powerlog ```

So, how can I connect to `mariadb` using `mariadb -uroot -password`?

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