From: Dan Nelson
Date: February 1 2002 3:15am
Subject: Re: Starting MySQL (w/ InnoDB) for the firs time
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In the last episode (Jan 31), Eric Mayers said:
> How can I tell when the database is ready to go (preferably from a shell
> script)?

while ! mysqladmin status > /dev/null 2>&1 ; do sleep 10 ; done

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	Dan Nelson
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