[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 9 and mysql server startup

[Preston]

Start up yast (type yast2 for X version, yast for ncurses version at prompt)
Go to System, then Runlevel Editor.

Find mysql and make it enabled.  It should then start up when you reboot the machine.  

Hope that helps.

Preston





>Howdy,
>  I have a SuSE 9 server where I want to run a mysql server.  I
>installed the software and I see the executables.  I have not figured
>out how to start them at system startup.  That is to say, I have not
>figured the right way to do it.  I can manually start the server, and I
>can certainly write an init.d script to do it.  But, I kind of think
>there must be an easy and standard way to do it that I have missed. 
>When I wrote init.d scripts before, it was for obscure programs, but
>MySQL servers are not exactly rare.  On a  RedHat system, I just went
>into the list of Services and put a check mark by  mysqld.  There is no
>similar entry in SuSE.  I have googled without finding anything useful. 
>Any suggestions would be welcome.
>Good day,
>Ralph