[thelist] Shell script goes crazy and kills server

[Christopher Ditty]

Any shell guru's out there?  I have a very small shell script that pings my DB
and if it is not up, it starts it.  It runs fine when run from a telnet prompt,
however, when run via cron, it crashes the db server then the next time it runs,
it restarts it.

Anyone see anything with this?

result=`mysqladmin ping`
echo $result
if [ "$result" != "mysqld is alive" ]
then
  cd ~
  ./etc/mysql_restart
fi


Thanks
CDitty