sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status
* /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.75, for debian-linux-gnu on i486
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 MySQL AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
Server version 5.0.75-0ubuntu10.5
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 1 day 6 hours 47 min 56 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 233 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 148 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 17 Queries per second avg: 0.002