cant restart mysql

Hi I am trying to start mysql on my server and its not starting gives me the following error message

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/private/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (38)

I have checked etc/my.cnf and it has

socket = /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock

i have checked php.ini.default and php.ini and they have

mysql.default_socket = /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock

I type locate mysql.sock
and it gives

/private/var/mysql/mysql.sock

any ideas what on earth is going on here?
i don't understand what is going on

what happens when you issue..

mysql_config --socket

?

if i type mysql_config --socket i get

/var/mysql/mysql.sock

Try changing the my.cnf to point to that as your socket

I tried that it just gives

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

I solved it the disk was full lol i had to remove a 29GB log file and reboot the server and hey presto mysql restarted. The lesson to be learnt is before you start playing around with config files check your hard disk space.

yea, I've done that more than once.. a df would have saved me some time in the past

MySQL not starting

Can someone tell me which mysql files I can remove in order to start mysql. I removed the two log files but I still can't restart mysql.