ADMIN WEBHOSTING DEVELOPMENT

Getting the error "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)" while I try to connect to mysql via a jailed shell enabled user.

[email protected] [~]# mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
[email protected] [~]#

Solution :
You need to specify the hostname so you can connect.

mysql -h=127.0.0.1 -u user_name -p

or

mysql -h=localhost -u user_name -p

To run any mysql command and output that to a file use

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e "select search_string from user_database.table_name;" > myoutput.txt