Starting The MySQL Server With Instance Manager
- Before starting Instance Manager, one should set up a password file for it.
- Otherwise, it will not be possible to connect to Instance Manager to control it after it starts.
- When Instance Manager starts, it reads the Instance Manager configuration file, if it exists, to find server instance sections and prepare a list of instances.
- Instance sections have names of the form
[mysqld] or [mysqldN].
- Where N is an unsigned integer.
- After preparing the list of instances, Instance Manager starts the guarded instances in the list.
- If there are no instances, Instance Manager creates an instance named
mysqld and attempts to start it with default (compiled-in) configuration values.
- This means that the Instance Manager cannot find the
mysqld program if it is not installed in the default location.
- If MySQL server is installed in a non-standard location, one should create an Instance Manager configuration file.
What is a guarded instance?
© 2007 John Michael Pierobon
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