MySQL on Debian and Ubuntu
Posted by Singer Wang on Nov 10, 2009
Debian Linux (the underlying foundation of Ubuntu) manages the startup/shutdown of MySQL quite differently from the ways I am used to. I am a long-time user of both the MySQL binary provided by Red Hat/SuSE (along with Fedora and clones like CentOS and Oracle Enterprise Linux) and the official binary from mysql.com. After the successful restore of a cold backup, I started mysqld using the Debian provided init script. The script said that mysqld failed to start up, but in reality it did start up. Similarly, stopping mysqld fails.
The output below demonstrates the outputs and the behavior seen on a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server: Read the rest of this entry . . .
