Okay killall -HUP then

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:admin@;asarian-host.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:45 PM
To: Black, Kelly W [PCS]; 'CM Miller'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Still not getting a mysql prompt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Black, Kelly W [PCS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'CM Miller'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:16 AM
Subject: RE: Still not getting a mysql prompt


> In order to perform these tasks you may need to stop the
> mysqld daemon with
>
> killall -9 mysqld
>
> (may need to enter it a couple of times it tends to try to restart.


Never kill mysqld with -9; you may lose data that way. Kill it regularly;
like this:

    kill -TERM `cat /var/run/mysqld.pid`

(Or wherever your pid resides). Actually, no UNIX process should ever be
killed with -9, unless it became totally stuck. Always allow a graceful
closure.

- Mark

        System Administrator Asarian-host.org

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