How do you stop MySQL on a Mac OS install?

Question

I installed MySQL via MacPorts. What is the command I need to stop the server (I need to test how my application behave when MySQL is dead)?

Answer 1

Try

sudo /support-files/mysql.server start
sudo /support-files/mysql.server stop

Else try:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM restart

However, I found that the second option only worked (OS X 10.6, MySQL 5.1.50) if the .plist has been loaded with:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

PS: I also found that I needed to unload the .plist to get an unrelated install of MAMP-MySQL to start / stop correctly. After running running this, MAMP-MySQL starts just fine:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist