start MySQL server from command line on Mac OS Lion

Question

I installed mySQL for my Mac. Beside starting the SQL server with mySQL.prefPane tool installed in System Preference, I want to know the instruction to start from command-li

Answer 1

As this helpful article states: On OS X to start/stop MySQL from the command line:

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

On Linux start/stop from the command line:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start 
/etc/init.d/mysqld stop 
/etc/init.d/mysqld restart 

Some Linux flavours offer the service command too

# service mysqld start 
# service mysqld stop 
# service mysqld restart

or

 # service mysql start 
 # service mysql stop 
 # service mysql restart