Thanks to the responses I got. One of them will surely work for me. Mike B. On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 01:35, Marek Kilimajer wrote: > barsalou wrote: > > I know I can see if php has the ability to talk with the Mysql server, > > but is there a way to determine if the Mysql server is running. In some > > cases, I wouldn't have passwords, so a mysql_connect wouldn't work. > > I'm sure, at any given time, there is a mysql server running somewhere > in the world. > > If you mean if it is running on your server, run > > ps ax |grep mysqld | grep -v grep -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php