Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 268

Use the program to set the server's scheduling priority to the given value.
nice
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--no-defaults
Do not read any option files. This must be the first option on the command line if it is used.
•
--open-files-limit=count
The number of files that
Note that you need to start
•
--pid-file=file_name
The path name of the process ID file.
•
--port=port_num
The port number that the server should use when listening for TCP/IP connections. The port number
must be 1024 or higher unless the server is started by the
•
--skip-kill-mysqld
Do not try to kill stray
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--socket=path
The Unix socket file that the server should use when listening for local connections.
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--timezone=timezone
Set the time zone environment variable to the given option value. Consult your operating system
TZ
documentation for legal time zone specification formats.
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--user={user_name|user_id}
Run the server as the user having the name
mysqld
("User" in this context refers to a system login account, not a MySQL user listed in the grant tables.)
If you execute
mysqld_safe
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file
or the option file will not be used. For example, this command will not use the named option file:
mysql> mysqld_safe --port=port_num --defaults-file=file_name
Instead, use the following command:
mysql> mysqld_safe --defaults-file=file_name --port=port_num
The script is written so that it normally can start a server that was installed from either
mysqld_safe
a source or a binary distribution of MySQL, even though these types of distributions typically install the
server in slightly different locations. (See
one of the following conditions to be true:
• The server and databases can be found relative to the working directory (the directory from which
is invoked). For binary distributions,
mysqld_safe
for and directories. For source distributions, it looks for
bin data
condition should be met if you execute
example,
/usr/local/mysql
• If the server and databases cannot be found relative to the working directory,
attempts to locate them by absolute path names. Typical locations are
and /usr/local/var. The actual locations are determined from the values configured into the
— MySQL Server Startup Script
mysqld_safe
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should be able to open. The option value is passed to
mysqld
mysqld_safe
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processes at startup. This option works only on Linux.
mysqld
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with the
--defaults-file
Section 2.7, "Installation
mysqld_safe
for a binary distribution).
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as for this to work properly!
root
system user.
root
user_name
[247] or
Layouts".)
mysqld_safe
from your MySQL installation directory (for
ulimit
or the numeric user ID user_id.
--defaults-extra-
mysqld_safe
looks under its working directory
and directories. This
libexec var
mysqld_safe
/usr/local/libexec
-n.
expects