From: Michael Widenius Date: March 26 1999 2:10am Subject: RE: mysqladmin shutdown List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/988 Message-Id: <14074.60412.541935.26666@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "David" == David Johnson writes: David> 3.22.15-gamma on BSD 3.1. I am not aware of any problems like the above with BSD 3.1 (Except if you are using a broken compiler) 'mysqladmin shutdown' should take down MySQL nicely without any problems. Are you 100 % sure that the your problem couldn't be something else? Did you check the hostname.err log for errors? Regards, Monty David> -----Original Message----- David> From: Karl Pielorz [mailto:kpielorz@stripped] David> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:49 AM David> To: davej@stripped David> Cc: mysql@stripped David> Subject: Re: mysqladmin shutdown David> David Johnson wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> While one of our engineers was testing shutdown/startup scripts for our >> database, the database got horribly corrupted. We ran isamchk and it >> "fixed" the problem, but hundreds of our rows got deleted. The engineer >> ran: >> >> mysqladmin shutdown >> >> Did the problem occur because he didn't flush the tables first? Any other >> ideas? David> What version of Mysql & What operating system were you using? - I've only David> seen David> the above once, which was caused by a known 'problem' and the O/S's native David> Threads implementation (and this was a while ago)... David> -Kp David> --------------------------------------------------------------------- David> Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before David> posting. To request this thread, e-mail mysql-thread978@stripped David> To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the David> List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, David> e-mail mysql-unsubscribe@stripped instead.