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I had come across the --verbose switch as a sub switch for --help, but thought it unlikely that it would produce anything more wordy that the wordy refman pages online, just in an even less easy to read format (though I could do a "> help.txt"). I hadn't come across the --debug switch and will give it a try.Being networked - I have covered this before but this is a long thread and things can easily get lost. Normally the HTPC is not networked, but it does have a network card and there is a (crossover?) ethernet cable connected to my desktop. The reason for this is the HTPC only has a CRT TV connected to it which is fine for watching SD TV but for any extended activity that involves reading text eg log files, even with larger screen fonts, easier to read but less on screen at any one time, it is easier to map the relevant networked partition to the desktop and work from there. Networking also makes it easier to transfer files (otherwise it is copy to USB stick to copy across) eg for uploading. So sometimes I enable networking if it makes sense to do so but most of the time it is disabled. With all the log files work going on recently I have at times had the network connection up and running. The actual change is pretty minimal - either I enable it or disable it, the configuration stays the same. The 192.xxx ip addresses are the usual assigned local/home network type addresses.I too wondered about the network active/inactive question, all the more so when a while back a suggestion was made to add a virtual network card. However, I don't think being networked/not networked is the answer, because yesterday morning, when most of the mysql starts were slow, but one out of the blue was fast, the PCs were networked. Even when networked, you get mostly slow starts. It just may be - can't prove this - that nowadays I only get fast mysql starts when networked, but then again for the vast majority of the time I have had the HTPC I have had fast mysql starts while not networked. So although a question worth asking, I don't think the network question has given us the answer.
I had come across the --verbose switch as a sub switch for --help, but thought it unlikely that it would produce anything more wordy that the wordy refman pages online, just in an even less easy to read format (though I could do a "> help.txt"). I hadn't come across the --debug switch and will give it a try.
Being networked - I have covered this before but this is a long thread and things can easily get lost. Normally the HTPC is not networked, but it does have a network card and there is a (crossover?) ethernet cable connected to my desktop. The reason for this is the HTPC only has a CRT TV connected to it which is fine for watching SD TV but for any extended activity that involves reading text eg log files, even with larger screen fonts, easier to read but less on screen at any one time, it is easier to map the relevant networked partition to the desktop and work from there. Networking also makes it easier to transfer files (otherwise it is copy to USB stick to copy across) eg for uploading. So sometimes I enable networking if it makes sense to do so but most of the time it is disabled. With all the log files work going on recently I have at times had the network connection up and running. The actual change is pretty minimal - either I enable it or disable it, the configuration stays the same. The 192.xxx ip addresses are the usual assigned local/home network type addresses.
I too wondered about the network active/inactive question, all the more so when a while back a suggestion was made to add a virtual network card. However, I don't think being networked/not networked is the answer, because yesterday morning, when most of the mysql starts were slow, but one out of the blue was fast, the PCs were networked. Even when networked, you get mostly slow starts. It just may be - can't prove this - that nowadays I only get fast mysql starts when networked, but then again for the vast majority of the time I have had the HTPC I have had fast mysql starts while not networked. So although a question worth asking, I don't think the network question has given us the answer.
