MySQL under OS X instructions are already on Apple's dev server.
The one piece that's missing is startup scripts so that your MySQL server gets restarted on boot up.
Unfortunately, OS X is not like Linux. In fact, it's not like any Unix I'm used to. Startup scripts go under /Library/StartupItems.
So - my little tiny contribution: shake and bake startup scripts.
Unroll the tar.gz file called "mysql-start.tar.gz" from my download page.
Open up a terminal window.
bash-2.05a$ cd /Library/StartupItems/ bash-2.05a$ tar -zxvf ~/mysql-start.tar.gz
And off you go. The scripts assume that you did exactly what the Apple docs suggested. The root password for the MySQL server is assumed to be "sniggle" - just like the Apple docs.
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