Re: Starting MySQL (w/ InnoDB) for the firs time

2002-01-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 31), Eric Mayers said: > How can I tell when the database is ready to go (preferably from a shell > script)? while ! mysqladmin status > /dev/null 2>&1 ; do sleep 10 ; done -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Starting MySQL (w/ InnoDB) for the firs time

2002-01-31 Thread Eric Mayers
Hi Everyone, I'm using MySQL with 5 2gb InnoDB data files in a system that an end user will install. My problem is that the first time InnoDB starts up after installation it takes a long time for it to build its data files. The delay is annoying (any ways to make this faster?) but acceptable,