Restart, Start, Stop MySQL server from the Command Line Terminal, OSX, Linux

To restart, start or stop MySQL server from the command line, type the following at the shell prompt…

On Linux start/stop/restart from the command line:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

/etc/init.d/mysqld stop

/etc/init.d/mysqld restart

Some Linux flavours offer the service command too:

service mysqld start

service mysqld stop

service mysqld restart

or

service mysql start

service mysql stop

service mysql restart

On OS X to start/stop/restart MySQL from the command line:

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server restart