mysqld issues

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:21, duncan brown wrote:
> I was reading through the archives for this user's mailing list and no one really addressed a GREAT out of the box way to deal with the ping failing on mysqld start in the init.d scripts.  I've just changed the ping lines to the following:
> 
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping -u $RANDOM 2> /dev/null
> 
> this way, even if root doesn't have a pw set, the ping will work when the server is up.
    This has been discussed in this list before. I just changed it to something
I know I will not use as a valid user. I don't know if there is bugzilla entry
on this subject, but you could add one if not ;)

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