On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:10, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
That was Jason's quick guess. And having a look at the mysql init script
you will find following comment:
# If you've removed anonymous users, this line must be changed
to
# use a user that is allowed to ping mysqld.
ping="/usr/bin/mysqladmin -uUNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER ping"
The update from January 5 does it in an even better way (see the
bugzilla mentioned earlier in th thread)
# Spin for a maximum of N seconds waiting for the server to come
up.
# Rather than assuming we know a valid username, accept an
"access
# denied" response as meaning the server is functioning.
if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
STARTTIMEOUT=10
while [ $STARTTIMEOUT -gt 0 ]; do
RESPONSE=`/usr/bin/mysqladmin -uUNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER ping
2>&1` &&
break
echo "$RESPONSE" | grep -q "Access denied for user" &&
break
sleep 1
let STARTTIMEOUT=${STARTTIMEOUT}-1
done
if [ $STARTTIMEOUT -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL
Daemon."
action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
else
action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/true
fi
else
action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
fi
I.e. an "Access denied for user" is also considered as an indication
that the server is up.
Lars