Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.18-3 Severity: important
mysql-server-5.0 init scripts are outdated. Acording to MySQL AB a new init script is shipped with mysql that use mysqlmanager to start and monitor different instances of mysqld. This script is not present in the Debian. An extract from: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/instance-manager-startup-process.html "Normally, the mysqld MySQL Database Server is started with the mysql.server script, which usually resides in the /etc/init.d/ folder. In MySQL 5.0.3 this script invokes mysqlmanager (the MySQL Instance Manager binary) to start MySQL. (In prior versions of MySQL the mysqld_safe script is used for this purpose.) Starting from MySQL 5.0.4 the behavior of the init script was changed again to incorporate both setup schemes. In version 5.0.4, the init startup script uses the old scheme (invoking mysqld_safe) by default, but one can set the use_mysqld_safe variable in the script to 0 (zero) to use the MySQL Instance Manager to start a server." -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | aim: PCastellazzi jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | yahoo: YPCastellazzi msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | icq: 223020226
