How to stop mysqld

Question

To find out the start command for mysqld (using a mac) I can do:

ps aux|grep mysql

I get the following output, which allows me to start mys

Answer 1

There is an alternative way of just killing the daemon process by calling

kill -TERM PID

where PID is the value stored in the file mysqld.pid or the mysqld process id which can be obtained by issuing the command ps -a | grep mysqld.