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From: "Juan Pedro Reyes Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "mysql general list" <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: starting mysql 4.1.12 on Ubuntu Linux
hello, Hassan
which mysql gives me /usr/bin/mysql. echo $PATH shows me that /usr/bin is
the fourth try. I thougth this was windows like, where PATH is only used
if program is not found in active directory.
If you wish it, currrent directory (.) should be added to $PATH.
export PATH=.:$PATH
So, I have a script in /etc/init.d called mysql and an executable in
/usr/bin also called mysql that takes precedence.
/etc/init.d probably isn't (and maybe shouldn't be) in your PATH.
Less confusion if you rename /etc/init.d/mysql to mysqld.
I thought that when linux starts all scripts in /etc/init.d where given
the start signal. If so I don't understand why mysql remains stopped on
linux start up but wake up smoothly when I issue a manual
/etc/init.d/mysql start. It looks like a bug in Ubuntu distro.
On my Solaris box, there is a directory named /etc/rc2.d. In that directory
is a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/mysqld named S99mysqld. This means that
the mysql server will be started in init state 2. In /etc/rc1.d is a
symbolic
link to /etc/init.d/mysqld named K99mysqld. This means that the mysql
server will be killed in init state 1. Your /etc/rc directory structure may
vary
somewhat.
ln -s /etc/init.d/mysqld /etc/rc2.d/S99mysqld
I have tried cp /etc/init.d/mysql /etc/init.d/mysqltmp but issuing
/etc/init.d/mysqltmp gives me "bash: mysqltmp: command not found"
mysqltmp may not be executable.
chmod u+x mysqltmp
Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Juan Pedro Reyes Molina wrote:
With my sql stopped I go to console as root and write:
cd /etc/init.d
mysql start
At this point, try (as root)
which mysql
It will certainly not be /etc/init.d/mysql, but somewhere in your
defined PATH; try
echo $PATH
to see what that is
I would like to learn what's the difference between "mysql start" and
"/etc/init.d/mysql start" if I'm sitting on "/etc/init.d"
'/etc/init.d/mysql' defines the executable you want to run explicitly;
'mysql' is the first instance of an executable with that name in your
PATH.
I think this error is preventing mysql from automatically starting on
start up.
Probably not; look in your error logs for more information on that.
And in any case 'mysql' is generally the *client* program; *mysqld*
is the server that you want to start. Sounds like your distro has a
confusingly named startup file in /etc/init.d.
HTH!
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