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

Apparently you want:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

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Answer 2

In my case, it kept on restarting as soon as I killed the process using PID. Also brew stop command didn't work as I installed without using homebrew. Then I went to mac system preferences and we have MySQL installed there. Just open it and stop the MySQL server and you're done. Here in the screenshot, you can find MySQL in bottom of system preferences.

Answer 3

This worked for me on macOS 10.13.6 with 8.0.12 MySQL

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

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server restart

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

Answer 4

On OSX Snow Leopard

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.mysqld.plist

Answer 5

mysql> show variables where variable_name like '%dir%';

| datadir | /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/ |

Answer 6

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