se dalla shell do il comando mysql, e poi faccio status mi dice questo:
codice:
mysql> status
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mysql  Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)

Connection id:          4
Current database:
Current user:           root@localhost
Current pager:          stdout
Using outfile:          ''
Server version:         3.23.58
Protocol version:       10
Connection:             Localhost via UNIX socket
Client characterset:    latin1
Server characterset:    latin1
UNIX socket:            /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime:                 13 min 24 sec

Threads: 1  Questions: 5  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 6  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.006
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