Stopping MySQL

[Rick Chen]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:37:18PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have mysql running, and have connected via MySQLAdministrator and have 
> tried stopping the process via the Stop the Server button in Service 
> Control, but, when going to the terminal and typing mysql it states 
> another process of mysqld is running.
> 
> [root at localhost bin]# mysql
> A mysqld process already exists
> 
> Little confused. Cheers.
>
check whether mysql is running with
ps aux|grep -i mysql

to shutdown mysql
as root
/etc/init.d/mysql stop

i am running mysql 4.1 from mysql.com
may be fedora version is
/etc/init.d/mysqld stop