hello i am trying to install mysql on linux so far it went good untill
chkconfig --add mysql
my linux machine has no chkconfig is there alternative routes to installing it to run on boot?

woops wrong forum sorry

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chkconfig is a RedHat thing. Are you running RedHat?


You could manually make a symbolic link to the scripts in /etc/init.d

in RedHat you'd have to do it for each runlevel u wanted mysql to start in (normally 3 and 5) but you'd have to knwo what you are doing because RedHat has that cryptic looking numbering trick where S=start and K=kill followed by a number that tells it the order it will start in and the name of the script like S08httpd or something strange like that, but if you have redhat then chkconfig should be available.

in Gentoo youd just do : rc-update add mysql default

RedHat and Gentoo are the only distros im familiar with in this area.