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

[yunshu_2009]

[root@208 mysql]# bin/mysqladmin version
bin/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!
不知道如何解决，前面的make make install都没啥问题

[yunshu_2009]

[root@208 mysql]# ps -ef | grep mysql
root 1472 1 0 Apr13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mysql//bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/usr/local/mysql//var --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql//var/localhost.localdomain.pid
501 1499 1472 0 Apr13 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql//var --user=mysql --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql//var/localhost.localdomain.pid --skip-external-locking --port=3306 --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
root 6458 4783 0 09:32 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mysql

[昵称很不好取]

mysql进程运行了吗？
ps看下

[别人家小孩]

不知道楼主是怎么解决的？求教