hi... a rather simple issue. i'm trying to make changes to the following init.d script which is used to start/stop mysql. i'd like to be able to prepend the option '--old-passwords' to the '/usr/sbin/mysqld'. any ideas as to how i should accomplish this... thanks bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx the mysql init.d script: --------------------------------------------------- [root@lserver5 init.d]# cat mysql_ #!/bin/sh # Copyright Abandoned 1996 TCX DataKonsult AB & Monty Program KB & Detron HB # This file is public domain and comes with NO WARRANTY of any kind # MySQL daemon start/stop script. # Usually this is put in /etc/init.d (at least on machines SYSV R4 based # systems) and linked to /etc/rc3.d/S99mysql and /etc/rc0.d/K01mysql. # When this is done the mysql server will be started when the machine is # started and shut down when the systems goes down. # Comments to support chkconfig on RedHat Linux # chkconfig: 2345 90 20 # description: A very fast and reliable SQL database engine. 4.1 # Comments to support LSB init script conventions ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: mysql # Required-Start: $local_fs $network $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: start and stop MySQL # Description: MySQL is a very fast and reliable SQL database engine. ### END INIT INFO # If you install MySQL on some other places than /, then you # have to do one of the following things for this script to work: # # - Run this script from within the MySQL installation directory # - Create a /etc/my.cnf file with the following information: # [mysqld] # basedir=<path-to-mysql-installation-directory> # - Add the above to any other configuration file (for example ~/.my.ini) # and copy my_print_defaults to /usr/bin # - Add the path to the mysql-installation-directory to the basedir variable # below. # # If you want to affect other MySQL variables, you should make your changes # in the /etc/my.cnf, ~/.my.cnf or other MySQL configuration files. # # bdouglas .. added start attribute due to '--old-passwords' option # basedir= # The following variables are only set for letting mysql.server find things. # Set some defaults datadir=/var/lib/mysql pid_file= if test -z "$basedir" then basedir=/ bindir=/usr/bin else bindir="$basedir/bin" fi # # Use LSB init script functions for printing messages, if possible # lsb_functions="/lib/lsb/init-functions" if test -f $lsb_functions ; then source $lsb_functions else alias log_success_msg="echo \ SUCCESS! " alias log_failure_msg="echo \ ERROR! " fi PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$basedir/bin export PATH mode=$1 # start or stop case `echo "testing\c"`,`echo -n testing` in *c*,-n*) echo_n= echo_c= ;; *c*,*) echo_n=-n echo_c= ;; *) echo_n= echo_c='\c' ;; esac parse_arguments() { for arg do case "$arg" in --basedir=*) basedir=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;; --datadir=*) datadir=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;; --pid-file=*) pid_file=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;; esac done } wait_for_pid () { i=0 while test $i -lt 35 ; do sleep 1 case "$1" in 'created') test -s $pid_file && i='' && break ;; 'removed') test ! -s $pid_file && i='' && break ;; *) echo "wait_for_pid () usage: wait_for_pid created|removed" exit 1 ;; esac echo $echo_n ".$echo_c" i=`expr $i + 1` done if test -z "$i" ; then log_success_msg else log_failure_msg fi } # Get arguments from the my.cnf file, # groups [mysqld] [mysql_server] and [mysql.server] if test -x ./bin/my_print_defaults then print_defaults="./bin/my_print_defaults" elif test -x $bindir/my_print_defaults then print_defaults="$bindir/my_print_defaults" elif test -x $bindir/mysql_print_defaults then print_defaults="$bindir/mysql_print_defaults" else # Try to find basedir in /etc/my.cnf conf=/etc/my.cnf print_defaults= if test -r $conf then subpat='^[^=]*basedir[^=]*=\(.*\)$' dirs=`sed -e "/$subpat/!d" -e 's//\1/' $conf` for d in $dirs do d=`echo $d | sed -e 's/[ ]//g'` if test -x "$d/bin/my_print_defaults" then print_defaults="$d/bin/my_print_defaults" break fi if test -x "$d/bin/mysql_print_defaults" then print_defaults="$d/bin/mysql_print_defaults" break fi done fi # Hope it's in the PATH ... but I doubt it test -z "$print_defaults" && print_defaults="my_print_defaults" fi # # Test if someone changed datadir; In this case we should also read the # default arguments from this directory # extra_args="" if test "$datadir" != "/var/lib/mysql" then extra_args="-e $datadir/my.cnf" fi parse_arguments `$print_defaults $extra_args mysqld server mysql_server mysql.server` # # Set pid file if not given # if test -z "$pid_file" then pid_file=$datadir/`/bin/hostname`.pid else case "$pid_file" in /* ) ;; * ) pid_file="$datadir/$pid_file" ;; esac fi # Safeguard (relative paths, core dumps..) cd $basedir case "$mode" in 'start') # Start daemon if test -x $bindir/mysqld_safe then # Give extra arguments to mysqld with the my.cnf file. This script may # be overwritten at next upgrade. echo $echo_n "Starting MySQL" $bindir/mysqld_safe --old-passwords --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file >/dev/null 2>&1 & wait_for_pid created # Make lock for RedHat / SuSE if test -w /var/lock/subsys then touch /var/lock/subsys/mysql fi else log_failure_msg "Can't execute $bindir/mysqld_safe" fi ;; 'stop') # Stop daemon. We use a signal here to avoid having to know the # root password. if test -s "$pid_file" then mysqld_pid=`cat $pid_file` echo $echo_n "Shutting down MySQL" kill $mysqld_pid # mysqld should remove the pid_file when it exits, so wait for it. wait_for_pid removed # delete lock for RedHat / SuSE if test -f /var/lock/subsys/mysql then rm -f /var/lock/subsys/mysql fi else log_failure_msg "MySQL PID file could not be found!" fi ;; 'restart') # Stop the service and regardless of whether it was # running or not, start it again. $0 stop $0 start ;; 'reload') if test -s "$pid_file" ; then mysqld_pid=`cat $pid_file` kill -HUP $mysqld_pid && log_success_msg "Reloading service MySQL" touch $pid_file else log_failure_msg "MySQL PID file could not be found!" fi ;; *) # usage echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|reload" exit 1 ;; esac [root@lserver5 init.d]# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -