Notes

• Automatic reboot of remote servers that are in trouble.

• Initializing mysql on a slackware distribution

  The command sequence to initialize the mysql database and start the server, as stated in the manual, does not work.

  You should also change the ownership of /var/lib/mysql after initializing the database and before starting the server.

       /usr/bin/mysql_install_db # initialize tables
       cd /var/lib/mysql; chown -R mysql.mysql . # change ownership of database files
       /usr/bin/safe_mysqld & # start server
       mysqladmin -u root password 'newpassword' # set root password