Quit MySQL without it restarting on El Capitan

Question

I\'m running OS X 10.11 El Capitan with its built-in server stack (Apache 2.4.16, MySQL 5.6.26).

I need to quit mysql, but killing the process immediately restarts i

Answer 1

On my config I found this:

$ cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysql.plist




  
    KeepAlive
    
    Label
    com.mysql.mysqld
    ProgramArguments
    
      /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe
      --user=mysql
    
  

You need to: change that true tag after KeepAlive to false and unload the daemon as others have suggested. In my case that was: sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysql.plist && launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysql.plist

Once the daemon will have restarted with the new config it will not keep mysql from being shut down when you kill it from the preferences.