TK Banks wrote:
>The startup script provided with Fedora linux uses the mysqladmin ping command to
> verify that the server is up after the safe_mysqld command has been issued; however, once
> I changed the password for the root account, this no longer works: it sits there and
> tries this command 10 times on one second intervals and finally declares failure for the
> startup procedure (even though the server is actually up and as happy as can be). I'm
> sure I could remedy the problem by encoding the mysql root password in the
> /etc/init.d/mysqld file, but this seems sort of stupid. Should I just nix the ping glop?
> Or perhaps creating a ping account with no password but no privledges would do the trick?
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Perhaps you could create a .my.cnf file for root that contains the password?
