From: Ed Carp Date: March 16 1999 5:34am Subject: Re: History and other List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/305 Message-Id: <003601be6f6e$bd0bb7a0$74c9a8c0@traveler.airmail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Others might use (kill -9 `pidof mysqld` /etc/rc.d/rc.mysql &). It is probably not a good idea to use kill -9, as it gives the daemon no chance to clean up after itself.