Unkle - How do I stop MySQL?

[Greg Julius <fromVendorList outtacyte com>]

This is really stupid, but I can't seem to stop MySQL.  The mysqld daemon 
is running as is safe_mysqld.

Issuing mysqld from the command line gets me "bash: mysqld: command not 
found" even when I am in the directory /usr/libexec where mysqld is.  man 
mysqld nor man safe_mysqld show much in the way of that info, and looking 
at the /usr/share/doc stuff gets me a big document with lots of words stop 
and start, but I can't seem to find "to stop mysql do this: " type of thing.

I'm probably overlooking it, and according to murphy's law I'll find it as 
I send this, but instead of wasting more time, I'll just admit my ignorance 
and ask.

How do you stop mysql?
How do you start mysql?
How do you get mysql to re-read its config file (a restart type of thing)?

-g