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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 2.6.1,
       "Installing MySQL from RPM Packages on Linux", 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 2.13.1.2, "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 5.1.
       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=file_name
           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). This option was added in MySQL 5.1.17. Before that, a
           value of 900 is always used.
       o   --use-mysqld_safe
           Use mysqld_safe to start the server. This is the default.
       o   --use-manager
           Use Instance Manager to start the server.
       o   --user=user_name
           The login user name to use for running mysqld.
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
       modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
       This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.
       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see
       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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
       Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).

MySQL 5.1                         04/06/2010                   MYSQL.SERVER(1)