Bug 14863

Summary:	mysqld_safe is required for backwards compatibility
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Component:	MySQL-server	Assignee:	Anton Farygin <rider>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2	CC:	mike, nickel, rider, shaba
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/sisyphus/2008-March/212971.html

Description Dmitry V. Levin 2008-03-11 21:51:46 MSK

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/mysqld-safe.html

"Before MySQL 4.0, mysqld_safe is named safe_mysqld. To preserve backward
compatibility, MySQL binary distributions include safe_mysqld as a
symbolic link to mysqld_safe until MySQL 5.1."

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqld-safe.html

"To preserve backward compatibility with older versions of MySQL, MySQL
binary distributions still include safe_mysqld as a symbolic link to
mysqld_safe. However, you should not rely on this because it is removed
as of MySQL 5.1."

Comment 1 Konstantin A Lepikhov (L.A. Kostis) 2008-03-16 15:00:10 MSK

Fixed in MySQL-5.0.51-alt2.a