How to stop mysqld

Question

To find out the start command for mysqld (using a mac) I can do:

ps aux|grep mysql

I get the following output, which allows me to start mys

Answer 1

Kill is definitly the wrong way! The PID will stay, Replicationsjobs will be killed etc. etc.

STOP MySQL Server

/sbin/service mysql stop

START MySQL Server

/sbin/service mysql start

RESTART MySQL Server

/sbin/service mysql restart

Perhaps sudo will be needed if you have not enough rights

Answer 2

For MAMP

1. Stop servers (but you may notice MySQL stays on)
2. Remove or rename /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/ which holds the mysql.pid and mysql.sock.lock files
3. When you go back to Mamp, you'll see MySQL is now off. You can "Start Servers" again.

Answer 3

For Windows, you can run this command directly if mysql/bin is in your path.

mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

Answer 4

What worked for me on CentOS 6.4 was running service mysqld stop as the root user.

I found my answer on nixCraft.

Answer 5

To stop MariaDB and MySQL server instance:

sudo mysqladmin shutdown

To start MariaDB and MySQL server instance:

mysqld &

To change data ownership for MariaDB and MySQL server instance:

sudo chown -R 755 /usr/local/mariadb/data

Answer 6

Try:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown 

Or:

sudo mysqld stop

Or:

sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld stop

Or:

sudo mysql.server stop

If you install the Launchctl in OSX you can try:

MacPorts

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql.plist

Note: this is persistent after reboot.

Homebrew

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Binary installer

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM restart

I found that in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/102094/58768