On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:10, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > That was Jason's quick guess. And having a look at the mysql init script > you will find following comment: > > # If you've removed anonymous users, this line must be changed > to > # use a user that is allowed to ping mysqld. > ping="/usr/bin/mysqladmin -uUNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER ping" The update from January 5 does it in an even better way (see the bugzilla mentioned earlier in th thread) # Spin for a maximum of N seconds waiting for the server to come up. # Rather than assuming we know a valid username, accept an "access # denied" response as meaning the server is functioning. if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then STARTTIMEOUT=10 while [ $STARTTIMEOUT -gt 0 ]; do RESPONSE=`/usr/bin/mysqladmin -uUNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER ping 2>&1` && break echo "$RESPONSE" | grep -q "Access denied for user" && break sleep 1 let STARTTIMEOUT=${STARTTIMEOUT}-1 done if [ $STARTTIMEOUT -eq 0 ]; then echo "Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon." action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false else action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/true fi else action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false fi I.e. an "Access denied for user" is also considered as an indication that the server is up. Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/