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

On my mac osx yosemite 10.10. This command worked:

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

You can find your mysql file in folder /Library/LaunchDaemons/ to run