MySQL startup script on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Marko Tomic — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:26:48 +0100

I've had problems starting up MySQL database server on startup on Snow Leopard. MySQL preference pane seems to be flaky and it often fails to start MySQL server.

I created this startup script myself and it seems to work nicely.

{xtypo_code}sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.mysqld.plist{/xtypo_code}{xtypo_code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtRead More...

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