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

There is an alternative way of just killing the daemon process by calling

kill -TERM PID

where PID is the value stored in the file mysqld.pid or the mysqld process id which can be obtained by issuing the command ps -a | grep mysqld.

Answer 2

for Binary installer use this:

to stop:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

to start:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

to restart:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM restart

Answer 3

Try killing mysqld four times in a row. It's the only thing that worked for me...

root@ubuntu:/etc/init# killall -KILL mysqld 
root@ubuntu:/etc/init# killall -KILL mysqld 
root@ubuntu:/etc/init# killall -KILL mysqld 
root@ubuntu:/etc/init# killall -KILL mysqld 
mysqld: no process found

Just keep killing it over and over until you see "mysqld: no process found".

Answer 4

If my mysql keeps restarting
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql/dev.work.err
mysql.server stop
worked for me.

Answer 5

To stop autostart of mysql on boot, the following worked for me with mysql 8.0.12 installed using Homebrew in macOS Mojave 10.14.1:

rm -rf ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Answer 6

/etc/init.d/mysql stop
service mysql stop
killall -KILL mysql mysqld_safe mysqld

When you see the following information, you success

mysql: no process found
mysqld_safe: no process found
mysqld: no process found

I use this to solve the installation problem of MySQL 5.6 in Ubuntu 15.10 using this link.

During this installation, I encounter the problem saying:

"mysqld_safe A mysqld process already exists"

Just completely stop the mysqld, mysqld_safe, mysql solves the problem.