mysql-server

[Steve Traylen]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:33:28PM +0100 or thereabouts, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 25.03.2005 schrieb Steve Traylen um 22:24:
> 
> >   I noted this with the  MySQL upgrade and I did add a bug report to 
> >   Redhat but I can not find it anywhere in bugzilla there now....
> > 
> >   In the init.d script there is a line that looks something like
> > 
> >   ping="mysqladmin ........" 
> > 
> >   if you add  a '-t 2' with in this command then you should hopefully
> >   have more success starting up MySQL.
> > 
> >       Steve
> 
> That is not really a fix. The issue is, that the init script does not
> take care for the case, that the MySQL root user has a password set
> (which is highly recommended) and the anonymous user removed.
> Unfortunately the RPM install does not care for a changed init script -
> changed for fixing the issue - and exchanges it with the wrong one
> again.

I know it is not a fix, just the easiest thing to do to remove the
problem I could find. At this time that is my only interest.
> 
> In the /etc/init.d/mysqld init script there are 2 lines with a
> "mysqladmin ping ..." command. Change it to be
> 
> if [ -n "`/usr/bin/mysqladmin ping -u DUMMY_USER 2> /dev/null`" ]; then
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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