Missing mysqld.sock

[rsthomas]

I was working on a site yesterday and suddenly I was not able to bring anything up. The command to open the database returned this error message:
Connection failed: No such file or directory

service mysql status gives me this line:
Active: activating (start) since Thu 2025-06-26 15:57:15 EDT; 271ms ago
Not indicating Mysql is running

service mysql start and service mysql restart don't work.

mysql command returns this error message:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

ls -l /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock tells me this:
ls: cannot access '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock': No such file or directory

Evidently /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock has suddenly disappeared, and I can't find it anywhere on the server!

find / -name mysqld.sock
find: â/proc/385863â: No such file or directory
find: â/proc/385869â: No such file or directory
find: â/proc/385870â: No such file or directory

I run another Sentora server that has the file but it won't let me copy it to my computer in order to transfer to the dead server.
srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 May 6 06:48 mysqld.sock

What a mess!! Any ideas on how to get it back?