Which password on mysql upgrade?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 28, 2017, at 09:45, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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> As I indicated, I am _not_ using launchd to manage mysql.server (as I do not want to keep the server running, but rather run only on occasion that I need it).
> 
> If I understand correctly, “mysql.server start” calls mysql_safe, which in turn calls mysqld.
> 
> So is it not correct if I want to manage the mysql server in strictly a manual way, starting and stopping it when I want to, then "mysql.server start" and “mysql.server.stop” is an appropriate way to do it?

Sure.