On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:37:18PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > Hi All, > > I have mysql running, and have connected via MySQLAdministrator and have > tried stopping the process via the Stop the Server button in Service > Control, but, when going to the terminal and typing mysql it states > another process of mysqld is running. > > [root@localhost bin]# mysql > A mysqld process already exists > > Little confused. Cheers. > check whether mysql is running with ps aux|grep -i mysql to shutdown mysql as root /etc/init.d/mysql stop i am running mysql 4.1 from mysql.com may be fedora version is /etc/init.d/mysqld stop