On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:49:49 -0700 (PDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Adam Kranzel wrote:
> 
> > What is the proper way to start Mysql at system startup?  There's a
> > script supplied with Mysql, but it is designed (as far as I can
> > tell) for an SVR4 system, and I have no idea if it would work
> > properly on NetBSD.
> 
> I see an example at
>  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2002/02/10/0000.html
> 
> Also, I think that the share/mysql/mysql.server script (from
> mysql-client package) can be used too by copying into place.
> 
> (I see that postgresql-server comes with a rc.d/pgsql script in place;
> I am not sure why mysql-server doesn't come with it.)
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 

With a few modifications for my setup, that worked perfectly.  Thanks
very much for the pointer.  Perhaps this should be added to the
mysql-server port?

thanks
 -Adam