Bug 145619

Summary:	MySQL 5.0.x init script is missing important functionality from mysqld_safe
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Beckham <dbeckham>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux MySQL bugs team <mysql-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel Beckham 2006-08-30 09:35:28 UTC

The MySQL 5.0.x init script is missing the ability to restart the server when it dies from a SEGV or other non-normal signal.  

The mysqld_safe script was written to keep the MySQL server running and will restart the server on death to maintain service reliablility, but this ability was not copied to the portage version of the init script.

Comment 1 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-31 00:30:18 UTC

There is the "/etc/init.d/mysqlmanager" script that achieve a better result, it's very simple daemon (easy to keep bug free) that launch mysqld processes.

There is no possibility to copy the mysqld_safe behaviour, there is however an alternative: sys-process/daemontools, I can't tell how those integrate with current baselayout, plese ask on the forums/maillist/google for that

Comment 2 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-05 22:48:37 UTC

FWI, the refusal of using mysqld_safe made gentoo vulnerable to a mysql DoS (server crash), where most other distros were safe.

security bug 171934 and
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27513