Table 23.24 Command-line options used with the program ndbd ndbd — The NDB Cluster Data Node Daemon Format Description Added, Deprecated, or Removed --bind-address=name Local bind address (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --character-sets-dir=path Directory containing character sets (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --connect-delay=# Time to wait between attempts to contact a management server, in seconds; 0 means do not wait between attempts (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --connect-retries=# Set the number of times to retry a connection before giving up; 0 means 1 attempt only (and no retries) (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --connect-retry-delay=# Time to wait between attempts to contact a management server, in seconds; 0 means do not wait between attempts (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --connect- string=connection-string , -c Same as --ndb-connectstring (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --core-file Write core file on error; used in debugging (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --daemon , -d Start ndbd as daemon (default); override with --nodaemon (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --defaults-extra- file=path Read given file after global files are read (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --defaults-file=path Read default options from given file only (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --defaults-group- suffix=string Also read groups with concat(group, suffix) (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --foreground Run ndbd in foreground, provided for debugging purposes (implies -- nodaemon) (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --help , -? Display help text and exit (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --initial Perform initial start of ndbd, including file system cleanup; consult documentation before using this option (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --initial-start Perform partial initial start (requires --nowait-nodes) (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) 4238