From: Michael Widenius Date: April 1 1999 10:37pm Subject: safe shutdown List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1304 Message-Id: <14083.62729.926356.719443@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! >>>>> "matthew" == matthew mcglynn writes: matthew> I see that the manual recommends adding a call to mysql.server matthew> to rc.local, to effect auto-starting of mysqld. matthew> () matthew> Am I correct in inferring from this that mysqld will receive matthew> and act appropriately upon the SIGTERM sent out by the shutdown matthew> command on a Linux host ? Yes. matthew> Another way of asking this is whether mysql.server should matthew> be linked as a 'K' file within /etc/rc.d/rc0.d ? Yes. matthew> Are there any situations in which it would be beneficial to matthew> have /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/Kmysqld as a symlink to mysql.server ? matthew> Or is this just unnecessary in all cases ? Sorry, I can't answer this one.. matthew> We're using the latest MySQL, 3.22.20a, binary release, matthew> under RedHat Linux 5.2 (2.0.36). The threading library is whatever matthew> is standard to RHL 5.2. matthew> -- matthew> matt. Regards, Monty