Fatal error: Please read “Security” section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

Question

I am not sure how to fix this:

dyn-72-33-214-45:python mona$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld stop
2014-09-06 09:49:04 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DE         


        

Answer 1

The correct answer that worked for me on CentOS is

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

which is an init script and not /etc/init.d/mysqld restart, which is binary

The is in fact comment of @MrTux on the question which worked for me. It took quite a bit of my time hence posting it as answer.

Answer 2

Donal had the right solution for me. However, the updated plist name for 2017 is

com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist.

Answer 3

How i resolved this was following the 4th point in this url: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/changing-mysql-user.html

1. Edit my.cnf
2. Add user = root under under [mysqld] group of the file

If this doesn't work then make sure you have changed the password from default.

Answer 4

I'm using OS X (Yosemite) and this error happened to me when I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. It was solved by using this command

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start

Answer 5

in my case (RHEL7 and MariaDB) this works.

sudo systemctl restart mariadb

Answer 6

you might try this if you logged in with root:

mysqld --user=root