Re: mysqld_safe

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Mon, 29/3/10, Brown, Charles <CBrown@stripped> wrote:

> Hello All.  when I issued this
> command: ps -e | grep,  I noticed that mysqld_safe was
> up running in my system.
> My question is:  what is mysqld_safe and why was it
> running. Please help.
> 
> 
> [spbcb@naxbmisq03 ~]$ ps -e | grep -i mysql
> 11989 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
> 12025 ?        13:28:39 mysqld
> 

My understanding is that mysqld_safe is the process used to start mysqld and handle any
runtime errors, crashes etc.