Start mysqld directly

[Guest]

I am trying to make my mysql setup portable and can start it with my bash script like "./mysqld myoptions"  doing that everything works fine but it runs and nothing after that in the bash script runs until i stop mysql. How can I launch this and have it run in the background instead of in the bash script itself? Preferably I would still like to see the startup output to make sure it starts properly.

[trq]

Your question has more to do with Bash than Mysql.

 

./mysqld myoptions &

 

Really though, you should look at your distros start up scripts. These are usually stored in /etc/init.d.