mysqladmin is MySQL's client program for performing administrative operations.

Software Capabilities

• Check server configuration
• Check current status
• Create and drop databases
• Flush Commands
  • hosts
  • logs
  • privileges
  • status
  • tables
  • threads
• Shutdown Server
  • There exists a SHUTDOWN privilege that can be granted
  • Shutdown can only be executed from mysqladmin
  • Can be used if service mysql stop fails because of a missing socket file
• ping mysqld to see if it is running
• display the processlist
• ... and more