On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:56:02PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> root@SJ-MA-LX-Nagios:~# cat /etc/init.d/mysqld
> sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld
> sudo chmod 777 /var/run/mysqld
> sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld &

Using sudo is not required here.  Things started by init run as root.
You probably also don't want it to be 777, as that means anyone can
write and delete files in that directory.  I don't believe you need to
start it in the background either; most system daemons background
themselves.  I'm not 100% sure mysqld does, but I'd be more than a
little surprised if it didn't.

> when I manually evoke the script all works without a problem.  Without the
> script things don't work too well.

I take it you installed mysql from source?  The deb package does all
this for you, of course...

> How can I get the script to run at boot?  I've created a symbolic link in
> rc3-rc5.d.

The symlink need to be named in a specific way.  Specifically, it
needs to start with the letter 'S' (it must be capital) and a 2-digit
number that indicates the order you want it to start relative to the
other services.  Usually services which are not required to support
the proper running of the OS itself are given a relatively high
number, say in the 80's or 90's.  So, for example, you might create it
as S90mysqld in /etc/rcX.d, where X={1,2,3}.

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