How to start and stop mysql?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:22 AM, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2018, 09:08:22 CET schrieb Wade Smart:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I need to start and stop mysql, and I've only figured out how to stop
> it.
> > > I need to start it (not rebooting) so that I can temporarily use
> different
> > > options.  In my case, I need --skip-grant-tables.
>
> > sudo service mysql start
>
> This just starts mysql the normal way. But the OP said, that he needs to
> start it temporarily with self specified options.
>
> The following is how mysql is normally started (this is taken from
> /etc/init.d/mysql):
>
>             # Start MySQL!
>             su - mysql -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/mysqld_safe > /dev/null
> 2>&1 &"
>
> So the OP could use this, modify it as needed.
>
> Cheers
> Volker
>
>
Thanks.  Useful, I hope, but SHEESH! that mysqld_safe is over 1,000 lines
of code.  I'll figure out how to use and modify it somehow....


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