Can't connect to local MYSQL

["Adeel Asher" <adeel () worldcall net pk>]

Hi Guys 
           I setup the snort on my linux box. when i try to start snort process i get the following error:
   
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner snort: Initializing daemon mode
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner snortd: snort startup succeeded
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner snort: PID stat checked out ok, PID set to /var/run/
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner snort: Writing PID file to "/var/run/"
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner snort: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect
to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
Oct  9 04:31:13 winner kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode

Please help me to resolve this issue.

Regards
Asher