MacOSX: autostart mysql on boot

Question

I just installed mysql in terminal through homebrew.

Now when I try to connect to mysql it fails, but after I run mysqld it works..

So what I n

Answer 1

I have brew install of MYSQL.

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brew info mysql

and follow the instructions given:

To have launchd start mysql at login:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Answer 2

Followup to Alejandro that couldn't fit in a comment.

Check which services are user (login) and root (boot) with this:

$ brew services list
Name       Status  User   Plist
chronograf started jacob  /Users/jacob/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.chronograf.plist
grafana    started jacob  /Users/jacob/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.grafana.plist
influxdb   started root   /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.influxdb.plist
kapacitor  stopped        
mariadb    started jacob  /Users/jacob/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist
memcached  started jacob  /Users/jacob/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.memcached.plist
telegraf   started jacob  /Users/jacob/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.telegraf.plist

Answer 3

Mipadi's answer failed for me with MySQL 5.6.13 installed with Homebrew on the date of this post. But I checked brew info mysql as he suggested and it gave me a working solution:

> ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Answer 4

brew info mysql gives you the instructions for loading MySQL at startup, but here's all you need to do:

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp `brew --prefix mysql`/*mysql*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/*mysql*.plist

Answer 5

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/opt/mysql/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Answer 6

You don't need to setup a plist anymore. The latest version of brew (1.3.4) as of Oct 2017, you can only run:

brew services start <service_name>

and it will auto start every time you restart your computer. The command brew info gives you this

To have launchd start mysql now and restart at login: brew services start mysql Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: mysql.server start