At 9:04 PM -0700 5/6/1999, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>is there any kind of watchdog program for mySQL.
>basically, I wish to be emailed if mySQL goes down.
>I could write some little crontab program that does a query and emails upon
>failure, but thought someone may have a better solution before I go and do
>that...
It's probably easiest to use safe_mysqld, which monitors the server
and restarts it as necessary.
You could modify it to send you mail when it does it.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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