mysqladmin  Ver 8.19 Distrib 3.23.37, for suse-linux on i686
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

Administration program for the mysqld daemon.
Usage: mysqladmin [OPTIONS] command command....

  -#, --debug=...       Output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename`
  -f, --force		Don't ask for confirmation on drop database; with
			multiple commands, continue even if an error occurs
  -?, --help		Display this help and exit
  --character-sets-dir=...
                        Set the character set directory
  -C, --compress        Use compression in server/client protocol
  -h, --host=#		Connect to host
  -p, --password[=...]	Password to use when connecting to server
			If password is not given it's asked from the tty
  -P  --port=...	Port number to use for connection
  -i, --sleep=sec	Execute commands again and again with a sleep between
  -r, --relative        Show difference between current and previous values
                        when used with -i. Currently works only with
                        extended-status
  -E, --vertical        Print output vertically. Is similar to --relative,
                        but prints output vertically.
  -s, --silent		Silently exit if one can't connect to server
  -S, --socket=...	Socket file to use for connection
  -u, --user=#		User for login if not current user
  -v, --verbose         Write more information
  -V, --version		Output version information and exit
  -w, --wait[=retries]  Wait and retry if connection is down

Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf ~/.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

Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are:
connect_timeout       current value: 0
shutdown_timeout      current value: 3600

Where command is a one or more of: (Commands may be shortened)
  create databasename	Create a new database
  drop databasename	Delete a database and all its tables
  extended-status       Gives an extended status message from the server
  flush-hosts           Flush all cached hosts
  flush-logs            Flush all logs
  flush-status		Clear status variables
  flush-tables          Flush all tables
  flush-threads         Flush the thread cache
  flush-privileges      Reload grant tables (same as reload)
  kill id,id,...	Kill mysql threads
  password new-password Change old password to new-password
  ping			Check if mysqld is alive
  processlist		Show list of active threads in server
  reload		Reload grant tables
  refresh		Flush all tables and close and open logfiles
  shutdown		Take server down
  status		Gives a short status message from the server
  start-slave		Start slave
  stop-slave		Stop slave
  variables             Prints variables available
  version		Get version info from server