M:\mySQL\bin\ mysqladmin ping -h localhost -p
mysqld is alive
: Good news The device is not ready.
: Bad news,
The server may or may not be known but MySQL is not running there.error: 'Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost' (11001)'
confirm the spelling then
ping localhost
and
tracert localhost
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'xReal-World-Systems.com' failed
results will include version number ex:
error: 'Unknown MySQL Server Host 'xReal-World-Systems.com' (1)'
Check that mysqld is running on xReal-World-Systems.com and that the port is 3306.
You can check this by doing 'telnet xReal-World-Systems.com 3306'4.1.11
after a few seconds Connection to host lost.
or
Connection closed by foreign host.
M:\mySQL\bin> mysqladmin -h localhost status -p Uptime: 14568 Threads: 1 Questions: 10 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 0 Flush tables: 1 Queries per second avg: 0.000 M:\mySQL\bin> mysqladmin -h localhost version -p mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 4.1.11, for Win32 on ia32 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Server version 5.0.3-beta-nt Protocol version 10 Connection localhost via TCP/IP TCP port 3306 Uptime: 4 hours 2 min 56 sec Threads: 1 Questions: 11 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 0 Flush tables: 0 Open tries per second avg: 0.000
M:\mySQL\bin> mysqladmin -h localhost -p mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 4.1.11, for Win32 on ia32 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB ... Administration program for the mysqld daemon. Usage: mysqladmin [OPTIONS] command command.... -h, --host=name -u, --user=name if not current user. -p, --password[=name] If password not given it will be requested -O, --set-variable=name Change the value of a variable. deprecated; use --variable-name=value. -v, --verbose -V, --version Output version information and exit. -#, --debug[=name] Output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename'. -f, --force Don't ask for confirmation on drop database; danger With multiple commands, continue even if an error occurs. -C, --compress Use compression in server/client protocol. --protocol=name tcp,socket,pipe,memory. -W, --pipe -P, --port=# -S, --socket=name Socket file to use for connection. -i, --sleep=# Execute commands again and again with a sleep between. ex: status -c, --count=# Number of iterations to make. with --sleep -r, --relative Show difference between current and previous values used with --sleep -E, --vertical Print output vertically. similar to --relative, -w, --wait[=#] Wait and retry if connection is down. --connect_timeout=# -s, --silent Silently exit if can't connect to server. --shutdown_timeout=# Variables (--variable-name=value) and boolean options {FALSE|TRUE} Value (after reading options) --------------------------------- ----------------------------- count 0 force FALSE compress FALSE character-sets-dir (No default value) default-character-set (No default value) host localhost port 3306 relative FALSE shared-memory-base-name (No default value) socket (No default value) sleep 0 user (No default value) verbose FALSE vertical FALSE connect_timeout 43200 shutdown_timeout 3600 Default options are read from the following files in the given order: C:\WINNT\my.ini C:\WINNT\my.cnf C:\my.ini C:\my.cnf The following groups are read: mysqladmin client The following options may be given as the first argument: --print-defaults Print the program argument list and exit --no-defaults Don't read default options from any options file --defaults-file=# Only read default options from the given file # --defaults-extra-file=# Read this file after the global files are read Where command is a one or more of: (Commands may be shortened) debug Instruct server to write debug information to log create databasename drop databasename extended-status flush-hosts flush-logs flush-status flush-tables flush-threads flush-privileges Reload grant tables reload kill id,id,... Kill mysql threads password new-password Change old password to new-password, MySQL 4.1 hashin old-password new-password Change old password to new-password in old format ping Check if mysqld is alive processlist Show list of active threads in server refresh Flush all tables and close and open logfiles shutdown status start-slave stop-slave variables version
compare to MySQL status:
M:\mySQL\bin> mysql -h localhost Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 3 to server version: 5.0.3-beta-nt Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> \s -------------- mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.11, for Win32 (ia32) Connection id: 3 Current database: Current user: ODBC@SLAMMER-6GB SSL: Not in use Using delimiter: ; Server version: 5.0.3-beta-nt Protocol version: 10 Connection: localhost via TCP/IP Server characterset: latin1 Db characterset: latin1 Client characterset: latin1 Conn. characterset: latin1 TCP port: 3306 Uptime: 3 hours 50 min 42 sec Threads: 1 Questions: 8 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 0 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 1028 Queries per second avg: 34.936 -------------- mysql> quit Bye
M:\mySQL\bin> mysqladmin -h localhost variables (Interesting ones shown here, see MySQLadmin.html for complete list)
Variable_name Value | auto_increment_increment | 1 | auto_increment_offset | 1 | automatic_sp_privileges | ON | back_log | 50 | basedir | C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\ ... | completion_type | 0 | concurrent_insert | ON | connect_timeout | 5 | datadir | C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\Data | date_format | %Y-%m-%d | datetime_format | %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s | default_week_format | 0 ... | ft_boolean_syntax | + -><()~*:""& | ft_max_word_len | 84 | ft_min_word_len | 4 | ft_query_expansion_limit | 20 | ft_stopword_file | (built-in) ... | log_error | .\localhost.err ... | lower_case_file_system | OFF | lower_case_table_names | 1 ... | new | OFF | old_passwords | OFF ... | port | 3306 ... | system_time_zone | Eastern Standard Time ... | time_format | %H:%i:%s | time_zone | SYSTEM ... | tmpdir | updatable_views_with_limit | YES | version | 5.0.3-beta-nt | version_comment | Official MySQL binary | version_compile_machine | ia32 | version_compile_os | Win32 | wait_timeout | 28800 |