thanks, sinisa.
in case anyone else wants it, here is the shell fragment i wrote to test for
this condition. there is no timeout.
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "waiting for MySQL: "
until [ -n "`mysqladmin ping 2>/dev/null`" ]
do
echo -n "."
Aaron Brick writes:
> 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 wait
--Original Message-
From: Aaron Brick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: check for server start
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 h
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 enoug
