service mysqld start fails

[Ryan Ayers <rayers list rdasys net>]

Upon fresh installation of FC1.  service mysqld start returns a failure
status when a root password is supplied.  This is because in the file
/etc/init.d/mysqld /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping fails when a root password
is set.

Is this what should happen ... or is there a better way to determine if
mysql has been successfully started?

Ryan