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fwempa

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 15

MySQL curiosity....not stopping or starting [SOLVED, self]

I installed LAMP as in:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP

All seemed fine.  During next reboot, though, i noticed that the mysqld daemon failed to shutdown, and on reboot it failed to start based on the scrolling text on console at shutdown and startup.  But.... the server IS running now after i did nothing, but reboot.???

Confused.

fwempa

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 15

Re: MySQL curiosity....not stopping or starting [SOLVED, self]

i just put an '@' in front of mysqld in rc.conf.

Now when running thru bootup daemons all show as started except for mysqld, which shows [bkgnd], which i suppose is ok.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: MySQL curiosity....not stopping or starting [SOLVED, self]

Putting a @ in front of a daemon in rc.conf only forks the deamon in the background so the boot process can continue without having to wait for the daemon.

If there is a problem with mysqld, putting a @ in front of it won't fix that problem.

fwempa

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 15

Re: MySQL curiosity....not stopping or starting [SOLVED, self]

Odd.  Without the @, the status message tells me [FAILED] during the boot processing. With the @, messge is [BKGND].  The thing is... it seems to startup just fine wither way once i log in as root, i AM able to enter mysql console and access DBs.