How to register MySQL as a service?

vikram8jp · 10-22-2008, 11:24 PM

Hello all,

I just installed MySQL on my CentOS machine. I need to make the server run at startup. MySQL is not appearing in my init.d services. Can somebody suggest how I can do that? I don't want to put it in rc.local.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 10-22-2008, 11:44 PM

It's the mysqld file that gets added to your /etc/init.d directory (usually automatically), if it's not there then you need to locate and read it for instructions on what to do.

billymayday · 10-22-2008, 11:56 PM

How did you install it? You should have used

yum install mysqld

unless you installed from source

If you did that, and the mysqld file is in /etc/init.t as suggested avove, then

chkconfig --add mysqld (assuming that's the name of the file in /etc/init.d).

Then

chkconfig mysqld

so it start on reboot, and

service mysqld start

to start it now.

vikram8jp · 10-23-2008, 12:10 AM

Hey guys,

Thanks for your time.

Quote:

How did you install it? You should have used

yum install mysqld

No. I installed it as a part of bundle of Java IDE-Netbeans, Glassfish and MySQL, to be specific.

Thanks anyway. I have solved this problem. I got a startup script of mysql daemon from www.mysql.com and added it myself to /etc/rc.d/init.d under the name mysql.

Then, as billy here suggested

Quote:

chkconfig --add mysqld (assuming that's the name of the file in /etc/init.d).

Then

chkconfig mysqld

so it start on reboot, and

service mysqld start

Fiddling around in Linux is so much fun. I think I am going to get bored of Windows pretty soon.

billymayday · 10-23-2008, 12:19 AM

Glad it worked. Enjoy.