Posted on 12-17-2014 09:51 AM
Since Yosemite no longer supports StartupItems, here's a link to a shell script installer that will create a launchd for you to start MySQL automagically at system startup:
https://github.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/blob/master/mmvMySQL/YosemiteLaunchd.sh
Posted on 12-17-2014 12:25 PM
Posted on 12-07-2016 05:25 PM
Updated installers including 5.6 and later, all now use launchd.
https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59855