How to fix: Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)

I was trying to access a mysql database on my local slackware server and, you guessed it, got this nasty error.
If you come across this too here's what you'll have to do:

Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment this line so it will look like this:

Code:

#skip-networking

But here's the catch, this same option is present in

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld

in the form of a variable "SKIP" so please change the value of this variable (a null string will do the task)
reboot mysql and you're done:

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld restart