::fixture-ready:: $ mysqladmin ping -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 mysqld is alive ::exit-code::0 $ mysqladmin status Uptime: 86400 Threads: 7 Questions: 23890 Slow queries: 3 Opens: 112 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 0.276 ::exit-code::0 $ ss -ltnp | grep ':3306' LISTEN 0 151 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* users:(("mysqld",pid=733,fd=22)) ::exit-code::0