mysql.server - MySQL server startup script
mysql {start|stop}
MYSQL.SERVER(1) MySQL Database System MYSQL.SERVER(1)
NAME
mysql.server - MySQL server startup script
SYNOPSIS
mysql {start|stop}
DESCRIPTION
MySQL distributions on Unix include a script named mysql.server. It can
be used on systems such as Linux and Solaris that use System V-style
run directories to start and stop system services. It is also used by
the Mac OS X Startup Item for MySQL.
mysql.server can be found in the support-files directory under your
MySQL installation directory or in a MySQL source distribution.
If you use the Linux server RPM package (MySQL-server-VERSION.rpm), the
mysql.server script will be installed in the /etc/init.d directory with
the name mysql. You need not install it manually. See Section 2.5.4,
"Installing MySQL on Linux Using RPM Packages", for more information on
the Linux RPM packages.
Some vendors provide RPM packages that install a startup script under a
different name such as mysqld.
If you install MySQL from a source distribution or using a binary
distribution format that does not install mysql.server automatically,
you can install it manually. Instructions are provided in
Section 2.10.1.2, "Starting and Stopping MySQL Automatically".
mysql.server reads options from the [mysql.server] and [mysqld]
sections of option files. For backward compatibility, it also reads
[mysql_server] sections, although you should rename such sections to
[mysql.server] when using MySQL 5.6.
mysql.server supports the following options.
o --basedir=path
The path to the MySQL installation directory.
o --datadir=path
The path to the MySQL data directory.
o --pid-file=file_name
The path name of the file in which the server should write its
process ID.
o --service-startup-timeout=seconds
How long in seconds to wait for confirmation of server startup. If
the server does not start within this time, mysql.server exits with
an error. The default value is 900. A value of 0 means not to wait
at all for startup. Negative values mean to wait forever (no
timeout).
o --use-mysqld_safe
Use mysqld_safe to start the server. This is the default.
o --user=user_name
The login user name to use for running mysqld.
COPYRIGHT
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reserved.
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-------------------+
|Availability | database/mysql-56 |
+---------------+-------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+-------------------+
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.6/mysql-5.6.21.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://dev.mysql.com/.
MySQL 5.6 09/11/2014 MYSQL.SERVER(1)