Date: 01/08/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: mysql, sql

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart And of course there is the brute force way to kill all the processes: $ for i in `ps -ef |grep mysqld |awk '{print $2}'`; do `kill -9 $i`; done cut doesn't cut it in this case.

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