How does MySQL really start?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I solved it.  I was trying to use code that is inactive in Xubuntu 16.04.
I needed to fool with the systemd stuff in /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.
In particular, I added my switch to mysqld.cnf in that directory.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was suggested here that the script /etc/init.d/mysql is used in
> starting MySQL but I have
> been unable to confirm that by injecting code into it.  The code seems not
> to execute.
>
> So I put "set -x" into /usr/sbin/service and at the end it executed
>   exec systemctl start mysql.service
>
> Now I don't pretend to understand systemctl or systemd, but it seems
> likely that this command makes it look at /lib/systemd/system/mysql.service
> and this file just names
>
> ExecStartPre=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start pre
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld
> ExecStartPost=/usr/share/mysql/mysql-systemd-start post
>
> And this is getting very hard for me to follow, partly because of C code
> that I do not have readily at hand, and if it's as convoluted as the shell
> script are, might not help me much.
>
> What I really want to do is to inject a parameter into mysqld that will
> allow me to reset the root MySQL password.
>
> Failing that, I'd like to start over (how do I do that?)
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman
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>
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>



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Kevin O'Gorman
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