thanks, sinisa.
in case anyone else wants it, here is the shell fragment i wrote to test for
this condition. there is no timeout.
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "waiting for MySQL: "
until [ -n "`mysqladmin ping 2>/dev/null`" ]
do
echo -n "."
sleep 1
done
echo " MySQL started."
aaron.
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