On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:21, duncan brown wrote: > I was reading through the archives for this user's mailing list and no one really addressed a GREAT out of the box way to deal with the ping failing on mysqld start in the init.d scripts. I've just changed the ping lines to the following: > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping -u $RANDOM 2> /dev/null > > this way, even if root doesn't have a pw set, the ping will work when the server is up. This has been discussed in this list before. I just changed it to something I know I will not use as a valid user. I don't know if there is bugzilla entry on this subject, but you could add one if not ;) -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79