Re: please modify init.d script

2002-06-24 Thread Thomas Spahni
Florin, You may put something like # wait until mysql is ready counter=0 while ! mysqladmin \ -h localhost -u user -pPassword ping >/dev/null 2>&1 do counter=$((counter+1)) if [ $(($counter)) -gt $((200)) ] then echo "mysqld start

Re: please modify init.d script

2002-06-21 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:09, Gerald Clark wrote: > Or better yet, > add a sleep 2 to the beginning of the init.d program you are starting > that expects to connect to mysql. > > Why slow down the booting for everybody when some other daemon that > expects to connect to mysql > can not handle a

Re: please modify init.d script

2002-06-21 Thread Gerald Clark
Or better yet, add a sleep 2 to the beginning of the init.d program you are starting that expects to connect to mysql. Why slow down the booting for everybody when some other daemon that expects to connect to mysql can not handle a failed connect properly? Florin Andrei wrote: >The init.d scr

please modify init.d script

2002-06-21 Thread Florin Andrei
The init.d script provided with the MySQL RPMs has a problem: if an application depends on MySQL (say, it's a daemon logging some data in MySQL), and this application starts right after MySQL, it usually fails. The reason is, when the init.d/mysql script returs, usually MySQL is not fully running