I recently installed kde 3 on a computer running Mandrake 8.2. I have noticed that mysql was installed along with it and is started at bootup. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

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I doubt it was installed nor started by kde3

It was most likely installed when you did the Mandrake 8.2 install. It may be a standard component in the configuration you chose (i.e. server, workstation).

One of the init scripts is kicking off the mySQL daemon (mysqld). Look in the directory with your init scripts for a reference to mySQL. It may be rc.mysql or just mysql under an rc directory. When in doubt, you can just do a "grep *mysql*" on all of the init scripts to find out where it is.

You can either remove the execute bit from the mySQL init script itself or, if it's being called from a separate init script (i.e. init.d), then you can just comment out the call.

Hopefully, someone with more Mandrake experience can fill in the gaps.

j.

Thank you all for your replies,

I know it was not installed when I installed Mandrake 8.2.

I also know that it has something to do with kde 3, because I noticed it was started on bootup just after I did the kde install.

Sínce it seems to serve no function I will simply remove it.