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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 2.5.1, “Installing MySQL on Linux Using RPM Packages”, 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 2.10.1.2, “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 5.5.

       mysql.server supports the following options.

       •   --basedir=path

           The path to the MySQL installation directory.

       •   --datadir=path

           The path to the MySQL data directory.

       •   --pid-file=file_name

           The path name of the file in which the server should write its process ID.

       •   --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).

       •   --use-mysqld_safe

           Use mysqld_safe to start the server. This is the default.

       •   --user=user_name

           The login user name to use for running mysqld.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

       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 02110-1301 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

       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).