From: Michael Widenius Date: March 25 1999 10:18am Subject: Re: Isamchk on NT List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/940 Message-Id: <14074.3253.191997.349527@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Barry" == Barry writes: Barry> Hello, Barry> Thanks for both replies! Barry> I think the stopping and refresh were the problems. I am just Barry> testing/learning now, so no one else is using the DB. Barry> I was not able to repeat the problem this morning. So it was something I Barry> was doing. Barry> The script will be handy. Barry> If I may ask one more question - I saw in the NT docs for MySQL somewhere Barry> when I first started playing with MySQL that "the only way to shut down the Barry> server at this time was to use the Admin utilities and do a 'shutdown Barry> server'." Barry> Did I read this correctly? I can't find it again. The above doesn't anymore apply to the NT version. Barry> Is it still true for the latest version. I just purchased a license so I Barry> will be using the lasest very soon (shareware currently). I will have MySQL Barry> configured as a service on NT. ok Barry> Weekly I do an auto-reboot of the NT server at 3AM Monday morning. The Barry> reboot uses the NT shutdown-restart (not forcibly) facilities so I would Barry> imagine that all services are stopped by NT. Does stopping the MySQL NT Barry> service shutdown MySQL server nicely or should I use a script to shutdown Barry> MySQL before the reboot. NT will stop MySQL nicely on reboot. Regards, Monty