The INSTALL-BINARY file that came with my version of mysql recommends
that you start mysql using "bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &" which works
great to keep the database humming along.

But nowhere have I been able to find how to safely shut down the
database server. I recently made the big mistake of killing the
mysqld_safe process and then killing the mysqld processes, which
corrupted 2 of my databases. Thankfully, I recovered them with
myisamchk, but it was pretty scary for awhile.

What's the recommended way to (safely) stop mysql when started with
mysql_safe?

Thanks,

Sal

salvador wrote:
mysqladmin shutdown

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