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denis@australia:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l

denis@australia:~$ chkconfig --list mysql
mysql                     0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

But mysql runs on the startup anyway.

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I'm guessing that the issue here is that checkconfig checks the old style init scripts, and you have a new upstart init script.

Go to /etc/init/mysql.conf and change start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems) to start on runlevel [!0123456] If you need to start it manually service mysql start will do the trick. This thread on ubuntu forums goes into some depth on the process

A bit more background - chkconfig works on old school init scripts - they're known as /etc/rc scripts, but the form used in ubuntu was /etc/init.d. In order to list scripts - according to this question on AU, the command you should be using instead of chkconfig is initctl list. It will not change runlevels for you like chkconfig would tho.

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