Interestingly enough, adding the PATH to the .bash_profile has made the
preference pane 100% stable now (the Admin GUI is another story). So
I'm wondering if the pref pane simply calls a shell script or command.
If that is the case, shouldn't the PATH be added or created during
installation o
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:31:32 Michael Stassen wrote:
You can't call TextEdit from the command line like that, you have to launch
it in the GUI.
This will do the trick:
open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app .bash_profile
That doesn't really matter, though, as you do not want to use TextEdit,
becau
Okay...now we're getting somewhere. Thank you. Adding the file wasn't
the problem, I just wasn't sure WHERE it should be added. Yes, I am
using 10.3. Just trying to pin down why the GUI tools can't seem to
start and stop this thing reliably. As I stated before, I'm not a Unix
geek :) so fo
You can't call TextEdit from the command line like that, you have to launch
it in the GUI. That doesn't really matter, though, as you do not want to
use TextEdit, because it saves files as RTF!
Launch a Terminal window. You'll be in your home directory. Enter
ls .bash*
to see if you already
Jeff Justice wrote:
I'm not sure where I would go to
change the .bash_profile.
It's in your home directory. You land there just by opening a new
Terminal window. I suppose if you had to wimp out, you could probably say:
$ TextEdit .bash_profile
But real Unix users don't use GUI text
Okay, I was able to get the MySQL to shut down via command line.
However, not being a Unix person, I'm not sure where I would go to
change the .bash_profile. I've never had to change it for anything up
until now.
I will be curious to see if adding the path affects the problem in any
way with
It should be in mysql's bin directory, typically /usr/local/mysql/bin. You
either need to add that to your PATH,
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
or use the full path when executing the command
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
I'd recommend the former, and I'd sugges
Have you tried
mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
in Terminal?
Michael
Jeff Justice wrote:
Using the OSX MySQL Administrator, when "Stop Server" is clicked under
the "Service" tab, the server doesn't stop. In fact, the only way I
have been able to quit the MySQL process is through the Activity
Mo
Using the OSX MySQL Administrator, when "Stop Server" is clicked under
the "Service" tab, the server doesn't stop. In fact, the only way I
have been able to quit the MySQL process is through the Activity
Monitor, and a force quit at that. What's up with that?
Jeff
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