------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Sunday, May 10, 2015 01:20:34 PM -0700 > From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > > On 5/10/2015 1:04 PM, Earl A Ramirez wrote: >> Did a little Googling [0] and I saw that they recommend starting >> it as follows: >> >> /etc/init.d/mysql start > > which is old school sysVinit style. > > my guess is, you'll need to fix up a systemd service description > file, like /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service Actually, the systemctl command is: systemctl start mysql.service from the "systemctl show" output it looks like this actually calls the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql file for start/stop/reload, which seems backwards. It appears that mariadb is trying to be a total drop-in replacement to mysql, so all the paths/files, etc., e.g., in the ps output, are "mysql" not "mariadb" -- so it's tricky to have them both installed. By the way, you can use things like: systemctl list-units (and likely more efficient approaches) to find the systemctl command naming.