[mylvmbackup] Re: do_innodb_backup using wrong switch for pid-file

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Hi Jim,

Jim Wilson wrote:

| First of all, wonderful tool! Saved me a lot of time and once I got
| my .conf correct, worked like a charm (almost...).

Thanks!

| I wanted to do the auto innodb recover before backing up, and was having
| trouble starting mysqld_safe. I believe the problem is below:
|
| The proper name of switch for mysqld_safe is "--pid-file", not
| "--pidfile", at least as of mysql 5.0.45. Since mysql seems to ignore
| flags it does not know about, no error is thrown and the pid-file within
| the my.cnf is used. But in my case, that is the pid of the running
| mysqld!! So I get an error telling me mysqld is already running...

Thanks for the report! I actually had already fixed this bug in SVN,
but have not published a release that includes the fix. I guess I
should do so right away :)

Bye,
        LenZ
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