On May 22, 8:58 am, pau...@nospam.com wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:14:21 +0200, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >If your batch files are also stopping the server, how do you think your
> >batch scripts will react as a previous script just shuts down the server
> >for them?
>
> Obviously that doesnt happen and isnt relevant to the question asked.
>
> >What is the reason you need it stopped? It's not like it's a resource
> >hugger when it's idle. At any rate, I'd use mysqladmin to ping it I guess.
>
> It needs to be shut down when finished with - that shouldnt even arise as
> a question. Again not relevant.
>

It's perfectly relevant. Read this:

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal>