app startup on boot problem

[Bill Moran]

george donnelly wrote:
> hi
> 
> I have a server on which i run MySQL and Zope. I start MySQL from
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d and zope from cron with an @reboot. Zope has a module
> with let's it interface with MySQL.
> 
> The problem is that everytime i reboot Zope says that its connection to
> MySQL is broken because it can't find libmysqlcient. I restart zope and it
> works fine, problem gone.
> 
> I'd like to make this problem go away. I suspect it has to do with the order
> in which these apps start at boot time but I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest
> what I can look at to solve this?

Perhaps create a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that starts both mysql and
Zope, but in that order, and with a short sleep(1) between.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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