Killing a root process

Apr 18, '01 03:42:35PM

Contributed by: philipt18

How can one kill a root-owned process? I installed mysql and have it loading itself automatically on login. However, I need to kill it to reconfigure it and I realized I can't do so. In process viewer it shows that it's running, and that it's owned by root, but it won't let me kill it because I'm not root. If I use terminal and use the su command to become root, it doesn't show the mysqld process, only ps and tsch.

Any ideas how to either kill the process from within OS X or how to switch to the root user in terminal such that I can see the processes?

Thanks. Philip

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