Linux : Shutdown MySQL with MySQLadmin
When using the usual service shutdown is not enough (MySQL is still active, even though you have issued “service mysqld stop” or “/etc/init.d/mysql stop”), you can use this alternate method for a graceful shutdown : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 –protocol=tcp shutdown Or : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 shutdown