Restarting MySQL from the Command Line :: Russell to the Rescue
Posted by: Colin in General
I’m trying to restart MySQL from the command line in Mac OSX. The GUI tool in the Preference Pane wouldn’t work for me, so its time to go back to the Command Line roots. I knew that there was a way to restart MySQL from the commandline, but I was looking in all of the wrong places, (no /etc/init.d/ or others). I fired off a few quick Web Searches with Google and found many hints.
Most of the articles I found online were not very helpful. They all contained information that didn’t work for me and OSX 10.5.3 with MySQL 5.0.51a MySQL Community Server (GPL). Maybe Mysql changed their installer recently, maybe its a Mac Update thing, but the I ended up finding the solution in a comment of this article. A comment by someone named Russell proved to be very helpful.
Basically it came down to knowing where to find these commands:
Start - sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Stop - sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
Thanks Russell - You rock!!