Erik Price wrote: > All, > > Well, I solved the mystery of the missing Unix socket. It needs to be > defined at the time the daemon is started with: > --socket=/path/to/socket. Well, at least in my installation it does. > > But now I'm having the OPPOSITE problem -- shutting down the server > (the daemon). I've searched the issue at length in the documentation, > as well as in DuBois' "MySQL" (New Riders), and found quite a bit of > information about shutting down the server. One option is to use > > /usr/local/mysql/bin:mysql$ mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown > > But this one doesn't work for me, even though I am using the proper > password and am the proper user. Executing this command just leaves me > hanging at the prompt (and the only way to get out of the hang is to > either suspend the job, which also has no effect).
Do you have a query still running? E.g. does mysqladmin -uroot -p processlist show any locks? If so, can you kill the thread with mysqladmin kill? b. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
