hi all, in debian, the /etc/init.d/mysql script waits for the appearance of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid to conclude that the server has started. since the red hat init script does not do that, my program's own installer has to. however we have had a report that waiting for the pidfile is not enough; that the server wasn't ready for connections even after the file appeared. is that possible, and how can we (in sh) better determine when the server is up and ready?
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