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...) ...

I have a machine at home with mySQL on. When the machine is rebooted mySQL is now taking over an hour to start (server has been up 68 minutes now and mySQL is still showing as starting in Services). I ...

The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 startup, powering a small but promising Web site. In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations are data warehouses ...