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