Where is my.cnf on Mac OSX?
On Mountain Lion, I found that the my.cnf file is missing. This is because Mac uses the default MySQL settings…
Start/Stop MySQL from Mac OSX Terminal
So you want to stop MySQL, or restart it? 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