mysqladmin - a MySQL server administration program
mysqladmin [options] command [command-options] [command [command-options]] ...
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NAME
mysqladmin - a MySQL server administration program
SYNOPSIS
mysqladmin [options] command [command-options] [command
[command-options]]
...
DESCRIPTION
mysqladmin is a client for performing administrative operations. You
can use it to check the server's configuration and current status, to
create and drop databases, and more.
Invoke mysqladmin like this:
mysqladmin [options] command [command-arg] [command [command-arg]] ...
mysqladmin supports the following commands. Some of the commands take
an argument following the command name.
o create db_name
Create a new database named db_name.
o debug
Tell the server to write debug information to the error log. The
connected user must have the SUPER privilege. Format and content of
this information is subject to change.
This includes information about the Event Scheduler. See
Section 23.4.5, "Event Scheduler Status".
o drop db_name
Delete the database named db_name and all its tables.
o extended-status
Display the server status variables and their values.
o flush-hosts
Flush all information in the host cache. See Section 5.1.11.2, "DNS
Lookups and the Host Cache".
o flush-logs [log_type ...]
Flush all logs.
The mysqladmin flush-logs command permits optional log types to be
given, to specify which logs to flush. Following the flush-logs
command, you can provide a space-separated list of one or more of
the following log types: binary, engine, error, general, relay,
slow. These correspond to the log types that can be specified for
the FLUSH LOGS SQL statement.
o flush-privileges
Reload the grant tables (same as reload).
o flush-status
Clear status variables.
o flush-tables
Flush all tables.
o flush-threads
Flush the thread cache.
o kill id,id,...
Kill server threads. If multiple thread ID values are given, there
must be no spaces in the list.
To kill threads belonging to other users, the connected user must
have the SUPER privilege.
o old-password new_password
This is like the password command but stores the password using the
old (pre-4.1) password-hashing format. (See Section 6.1.2.4,
"Password Hashing in MySQL".)
This command was removed in MySQL 5.7.5.
o password new_password
Set a new password. This changes the password to new_password for
the account that you use with mysqladmin for connecting to the
server. Thus, the next time you invoke mysqladmin (or any other
client program) using the same account, you must specify the new
password.
Warning
Setting a password using mysqladmin should be considered
insecure. On some systems, your password becomes visible to
system status programs such as ps that may be invoked by other
users to display command lines. MySQL clients typically
overwrite the command-line password argument with zeros during
their initialization sequence. However, there is still a brief
interval during which the value is visible. Also, on some
systems this overwriting strategy is ineffective and the
password remains visible to ps. (SystemV Unix systems and
perhaps others are subject to this problem.)
If the new_password value contains spaces or other characters that
are special to your command interpreter, you need to enclose it
within quotation marks. On Windows, be sure to use double quotation
marks rather than single quotation marks; single quotation marks
are not stripped from the password, but rather are interpreted as
part of the password. For example:
mysqladmin password "my new password"
The new password can be omitted following the password command. In
this case, mysqladmin prompts for the password value, which enables
you to avoid specifying the password on the command line. Omitting
the password value should be done only if password is the final
command on the mysqladmin command line. Otherwise, the next
argument is taken as the password.
Caution
Do not use this command used if the server was started with the
--skip-grant-tables option. No password change is applied. This
is true even if you precede the password command with
flush-privileges on the same command line to re-enable the
grant tables because the flush operation occurs after you
connect. However, you can use mysqladmin flush-privileges to
re-enable the grant table and then use a separate mysqladmin
password command to change the password.
o ping
Check whether the server is available. The return status from
mysqladmin is 0 if the server is running, 1 if it is not. This is 0
even in case of an error such as Access denied, because this means
that the server is running but refused the connection, which is
different from the server not running.
o processlist
Show a list of active server threads. This is like the output of
the SHOW PROCESSLIST statement. If the --verbose option is given,
the output is like that of SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST. (See
Section 13.7.5.29, "SHOW PROCESSLIST Statement".)
o reload
Reload the grant tables.
o refresh
Flush all tables and close and open log files.
o shutdown
Stop the server.
o start-slave
Start replication on a replica server.
o status
Display a short server status message.
o stop-slave
Stop replication on a replica server.
o variables
Display the server system variables and their values.
o version
Display version information from the server.
All commands can be shortened to any unique prefix. For example:
$> mysqladmin proc stat
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 51 | jones | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
Uptime: 1473624 Threads: 1 Questions: 39487
Slow queries: 0 Opens: 541 Flush tables: 1
Open tables: 19 Queries per second avg: 0.0268
The mysqladmin status command result displays the following values:
o Uptime
The number of seconds the MySQL server has been running.
o Threads
The number of active threads (clients).
o Questions
The number of questions (queries) from clients since the server was
started.
o Slow queries
The number of queries that have taken more than long_query_time
seconds. See Section 5.4.5, "The Slow Query Log".
o Opens
The number of tables the server has opened.
o Flush tables
The number of flush-*, refresh, and reload commands the server has
executed.
o Open tables
The number of tables that currently are open.
If you execute mysqladmin shutdown when connecting to a local server
using a Unix socket file, mysqladmin waits until the server's process
ID file has been removed, to ensure that the server has stopped
properly.
mysqladmin supports the following options, which can be specified on
the command line or in the [mysqladmin] and [client] groups of an
option file. For information about option files used by MySQL programs,
see Section 4.2.2.2, "Using Option Files".
o --help, -? Display a help message and exit.
o --bind-address=ip_address On a computer having multiple network
interfaces, use this option to select which interface to use for
connecting to the MySQL server.
o --character-sets-dir=dir_name The directory where character sets
are installed. See Section 10.15, "Character Set Configuration".
o --compress, -C Compress all information sent between the client and
the server if possible. See Section 4.2.6, "Connection Compression
Control".
o --connect-timeout=value The maximum number of seconds before
connection timeout. The default value is 43200 (12 hours).
o --count=N, -c N The number of iterations to make for repeated
command execution if the --sleep option is given.
o --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options] Write a debugging log.
A typical debug_options string is d:t:o,file_name. The default is
d:t:o,/tmp/mysqladmin.trace.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG.
MySQL release binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this
option.
o --debug-check Print some debugging information when the program
exits.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG.
MySQL release binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this
option.
o --debug-info Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage
statistics when the program exits.
This option is available only if MySQL was built using WITH_DEBUG.
MySQL release binaries provided by Oracle are not built using this
option.
o --default-auth=plugin A hint about which client-side authentication
plugin to use. See Section 6.2.13, "Pluggable Authentication".
o --default-character-set=charset_name Use charset_name as the
default character set. See Section 10.15, "Character Set
Configuration".
o --defaults-extra-file=file_name Read this option file after the
global option file but (on Unix) before the user option file. If
the file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible, an error
occurs. If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is
interpreted relative to the current directory.
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --defaults-file=file_name Use only the given option file. If the
file does not exist or is otherwise inaccessible, an error occurs.
If file_name is not an absolute path name, it is interpreted
relative to the current directory.
Exception: Even with --defaults-file, client programs read
.mylogin.cnf.
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --defaults-group-suffix=str Read not only the usual option groups,
but also groups with the usual names and a suffix of str. For
example, mysqladmin normally reads the [client] and [mysqladmin]
groups. If this option is given as --defaults-group-suffix=_other,
mysqladmin also reads the [client_other] and [mysqladmin_other]
groups.
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --enable-cleartext-plugin Enable the mysql_clear_password cleartext
authentication plugin. (See Section 6.4.1.6, "Client-Side Cleartext
Pluggable Authentication".)
o --force, -f Do not ask for confirmation for the drop db_name
command. With multiple commands, continue even if an error occurs.
o --get-server-public-key Request from the server the public key
required for RSA key pair-based password exchange. This option
applies to clients that authenticate with the caching_sha2_password
authentication plugin. For that plugin, the server does not send
the public key unless requested. This option is ignored for
accounts that do not authenticate with that plugin. It is also
ignored if RSA-based password exchange is not used, as is the case
when the client connects to the server using a secure connection.
If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a
valid public key file, it takes precedence over
--get-server-public-key.
For information about the caching_sha2_password plugin, see
Section 6.4.1.4, "Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication".
The --get-server-public-key option was added in MySQL 5.7.23.
o --host=host_name, -h host_name Connect to the MySQL server on the
given host.
o --login-path=name Read options from the named login path in the
.mylogin.cnf login path file. A "login path" is an option group
containing options that specify which MySQL server to connect to
and which account to authenticate as. To create or modify a login
path file, use the mysql_config_editor utility. See
mysql_config_editor(1).
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --no-beep, -b Suppress the warning beep that is emitted by default
for errors such as a failure to connect to the server.
o --no-defaults Do not read any option files. If program startup
fails due to reading unknown options from an option file,
--no-defaults can be used to prevent them from being read.
The exception is that the .mylogin.cnf file is read in all cases,
if it exists. This permits passwords to be specified in a safer way
than on the command line even when --no-defaults is used. To create
.mylogin.cnf, use the mysql_config_editor utility. See
mysql_config_editor(1).
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --password[=password], -p[password] The password of the MySQL
account used for connecting to the server. The password value is
optional. If not given, mysqladmin prompts for one. If given, there
must be no space between --password= or -p and the password
following it. If no password option is specified, the default is to
send no password.
Specifying a password on the command line should be considered
insecure. To avoid giving the password on the command line, use an
option file. See Section 6.1.2.1, "End-User Guidelines for Password
Security".
To explicitly specify that there is no password and that mysqladmin
should not prompt for one, use the --skip-password option.
o --pipe, -W On Windows, connect to the server using a named pipe.
This option applies only if the server was started with the
named_pipe system variable enabled to support named-pipe
connections. In addition, the user making the connection must be a
member of the Windows group specified by the
named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.
o --plugin-dir=dir_name The directory in which to look for plugins.
Specify this option if the --default-auth option is used to specify
an authentication plugin but mysqladmin does not find it. See
Section 6.2.13, "Pluggable Authentication".
o --port=port_num, -P port_num For TCP/IP connections, the port
number to use.
o --print-defaults Print the program name and all options that it
gets from option files.
For additional information about this and other option-file
options, see Section 4.2.2.3, "Command-Line Options that Affect
Option-File Handling".
o --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY} The transport protocol to use
for connecting to the server. It is useful when the other
connection parameters normally result in use of a protocol other
than the one you want. For details on the permissible values, see
Section 4.2.5, "Connection Transport Protocols".
o --relative, -r Show the difference between the current and previous
values when used with the --sleep option. This option works only
with the extended-status command.
o --show-warnings Show warnings resulting from execution of
statements sent to the server.
o --secure-auth Do not send passwords to the server in old (pre-4.1)
format. This prevents connections except for servers that use the
newer password format.
As of MySQL 5.7.5, this option is deprecated; expect it to be
removed in a future MySQL release. It is always enabled and
attempting to disable it (--skip-secure-auth, --secure-auth=0)
produces an error. Before MySQL 5.7.5, this option is enabled by
default but can be disabled.
Note
Passwords that use the pre-4.1 hashing method are less secure
than passwords that use the native password hashing method and
should be avoided. Pre-4.1 passwords are deprecated and support
for them was removed in MySQL 5.7.5. For account upgrade
instructions, see Section 6.4.1.3, "Migrating Away from Pre-4.1
Password Hashing and the mysql_old_password Plugin".
o --server-public-key-path=file_name The path name to a file in PEM
format containing a client-side copy of the public key required by
the server for RSA key pair-based password exchange. This option
applies to clients that authenticate with the sha256_password or
caching_sha2_password authentication plugin. This option is ignored
for accounts that do not authenticate with one of those plugins. It
is also ignored if RSA-based password exchange is not used, as is
the case when the client connects to the server using a secure
connection.
If --server-public-key-path=file_name is given and specifies a
valid public key file, it takes precedence over
--get-server-public-key.
For sha256_password, this option applies only if MySQL was built
using OpenSSL.
For information about the sha256_password and caching_sha2_password
plugins, see Section 6.4.1.5, "SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication",
and Section 6.4.1.4, "Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication".
The --server-public-key-path option was added in MySQL 5.7.23.
o --shared-memory-base-name=name On Windows, the shared-memory name
to use for connections made using shared memory to a local server.
The default value is MYSQL. The shared-memory name is
case-sensitive.
This option applies only if the server was started with the
shared_memory system variable enabled to support shared-memory
connections.
o --shutdown-timeout=value The maximum number of seconds to wait for
server shutdown. The default value is 3600 (1 hour).
o --silent, -s Exit silently if a connection to the server cannot be
established.
o --sleep=delay, -i delay Execute commands repeatedly, sleeping for
delay seconds in between. The --count option determines the number
of iterations. If --count is not given, mysqladmin executes
commands indefinitely until interrupted.
o --socket=path, -S path For connections to localhost, the Unix
socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe to
use.
On Windows, this option applies only if the server was started with
the named_pipe system variable enabled to support named-pipe
connections. In addition, the user making the connection must be a
member of the Windows group specified by the
named_pipe_full_access_group system variable.
o --ssl* Options that begin with --ssl specify whether to connect to
the server using encryption and indicate where to find SSL keys and
certificates. See the section called "Command Options for Encrypted
Connections".
o --tls-version=protocol_list The permissible TLS protocols for
encrypted connections. The value is a list of one or more
comma-separated protocol names. The protocols that can be named for
this option depend on the SSL library used to compile MySQL. For
details, see Section 6.3.2, "Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and
Ciphers".
This option was added in MySQL 5.7.10.
o --user=user_name, -u user_name The user name of the MySQL account
to use for connecting to the server.
o --verbose, -v Verbose mode. Print more information about what the
program does.
o --version, -V Display version information and exit.
o --vertical, -E Print output vertically. This is similar to
--relative, but prints output vertically.
o --wait[=count], -w[count] If the connection cannot be established,
wait and retry instead of aborting. If a count value is given, it
indicates the number of times to retry. The default is one time.
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | database/mysql-57/client |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|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
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