Depending on the distro just throw a startup script (whatever you need to do to start the server) into /etc/rc.d/init3 (I think that is the path...) ...

Whenever my cron starts mysql, I get the following error in the log;<BR><BR>040928 23:32:55 mysqld started<BR>040928 23:32:55 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment. MySQL is one of the most popular database servers on the planet. It’s free, open source, ...