Question
'service mysql status' returns different values
I have a simple bash script running the following command:
service mysql status | mail -s "MySQL service" myname@example.com
I have added it to the crontab of the root user:
sudo crontab -e
Using the following command:
*/1 * * * * bash /home/myname/cron/mysql.sh
And the resulting email contains this:
* /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.5.37, for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64
Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Server version 5.5.37-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 3 hours 25 min 22 sec
These complicated statistics are are not expected value from the ‘service mysql status’ command.
When I run the batch file manually as root:
sudo bash mysql.sh
The resulting email contains the expected result:
mysql start/running, process 11928
So why is the 'service mysql status’ command returning an unexpected value when run from a batch file inside the root cron job?
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