Re: mysqld dies and does not restarts itself even id started as safe_mysqld (BSDI 4.0.1)

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "JV" == Javier Vegas <javier@stripped> writes:

JV> So it seems there is some discrepancy between how the hostname is
JV> obtained when starting
JV> mysqld and when safe_mysqld is monitoring.
JV> As a temporary fix, I created 
JV> /usr/local/mysql/var/machine.domain.com.pid as a 
JV> symbolic link to /usr/local/mysql/var/machine.pid.

JV> Does this sound reasonable, or am I totally off?

Sounds reasonable.  But I'd try to find out why the pid file name is
different.  On my systems it is the FQDN like /bin/hostname returns.