RE: Sql on redhat 8

[Paul DuBois]

At 14:00 -0500 4/29/03, Jones, Clifton R [CC] wrote:
>On that subject, I have a question.  I installed from RPM on RH8 and 
>everything went according to the installation instructions, EXCEPT 
>for one thing.  After the installation MySQL was running, but when I 
>had to reboot for some reason MySQL was no longer running.  The 
>instructions explicitly stated that MySQL would be set up to start 
>on reboot.  It doesn't.  Anyone have ideas why this functionality 
>failed?

It seems to be a bug in Red Hat's chkconfig program.

Do this as root:

# chkconfig --levels 2345 mysql on

To enable MySQL startup for runlevels 2 through 5.

>
>Stock RH 8 install (all defaults chosen) and same for MySQL.
>
>-Cliff