Varuna Seneviratna írta:
I am using WinXP.I am wanted to shutdown MySQL service from the command line
and ran the command mysqladmin -p root shutdown next the root password was
asked for,I entered the correct password, when I entered the password the
below displayed error was the result
Hi Varuna,
I think you're missing the -u option (User for login if not current user.)
Try: mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
(-p without a value indicates to prompt for a password from the terminal.)
Andy
Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
I am using WinXP.I am wanted to shutdown MySQL service from the
Hi Varuna,
The problem looks like it is with the command you issued. The correct
syntax is:
mysqladmin -uroot -p shutdown
then supply root password.
Without giving the -uroot argument, it doesn't know that you are trying
to log in as the root user, which is why it is telling you that access
is
Hi Ian Thanks!
Your advice worked.I have another problem.I stopped the service from the
services shortcut in the Administrative tools.then according to to the
reference manual to start the server for the first time the command to run
is given as C:\C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server
