starting mysql server automatically

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 09), Paul Keyes said:
> I tried adding mysql_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and
> rebooted but sockstat -4 | grep mysql showed nothing
> and mysql server wasn't running.
> 
> Some information about my system:
> 
> $uname -r
> 5.3-RELEASE
> 
> $pkg_info | grep mysql
> mysql-client-5.0.3_1 Multithreaded SQL database(client)
> mysql-server-5.0.3_1 Multithreaded SQL database(server)

Try building the mysql50-server and mysql50-client ports; they come
with FreeBSD-style startup scripts.  What you pasted looks like the
generic one shipped with the source distribution, and it doesn't look
like it got installed right:

> if test -z "$basedir"
> then
>   basedir=@prefix@
>   bindir=@bindir@
>   datadir=@localstatedir@
>   sbindir=@sbindir@
> else
>   bindir="$basedir/bin"
>   sbindir="$basedir/sbin"
> fi

The @xxx@ blocks should have been replaced with paths to
/usr/local/something .

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com