Linux – How to stop git-daemon on debian

If you're using Bash, you can run disown -h job

disown

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]

Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, the job is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If jobspec is not present, and neither the -a nor -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs.

mysqladmin shutdown

should work to shutdown the server.

I see two likely possibilities:

1. MySQL has a problem and is refusing to shut down for some reason.
2. The previous admin did something strange. Either modified the init.d script or didn't bother using the Debian packages at all to install MySQL.

What does dpkg --list mysql\* say?

What does /var/log/mysql.err say? Or the other mysql logs?

EDIT:

So mysqladmin shutdown worked?

According to that, the mysql-server package is installed (mysql-server-5.0; the mysql-server package is probably just a stub). So they may have installed over it? Running debsums mysql-server-5.0 might tell you more. dpkg --listfiles mysql-server-5.0 could help, too...

What's actually in /etc/init.d/mysql? I haven't checked that specific version of the package, but it should try to use mysqladmin shutdown ... Maybe you're lucky and they only broke that...