Ok, so I'm not sure what changed as I am by no means an expert in the ways of mysql or linux (I know most of the basics) but when I restart mysql via "service mysqld restart" it doesn't actually restart mysql at all. Nor will it stop.

So I ran "ps aux | grep mysqld" and noticed its being run by root as well as mysql user?! Im not really sure how this can happen?

```
root     31191  0.0  0.0  65948  1356 ?        S    Mar12   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --basedir=/usr --user=mysql

mysql    31896  1.4 23.2 3983432 3823924 ?     SLl  Mar12  56:49 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/db.local.err --open-files-limit=8192 --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --port=3306

```

Would anyone be able to give some insight on how this could happen? I did some googling and I dont know if I am using wrong search terms but I'm not finding anything helpful.