At 09:36 AM 9/23/2016, you wrote: >On 2016-09-22 18:07, david wrote: > > Folks > > > > I'm having problems installing Mariadb in Centos 7. > > > > > > Here's what I did: > > > > 0) Become root > > 1) Make sure that mariadb and mysql are NOT installed. > > 2) Delete residual libs > > rm -rf /var/lib/mysq* > > 3) yum install -y mariadb-server > > installed mariadb-5.5.50-1.el7_2.x86_64 from the Centos 'updates' > > repository > > 4) systemctl start mariadb > > 5) systemctl status mariadb > > > > All works well until step 5, where I get the result: > > > > > > > > # systemctl status mariadb > > ? mariadb.service - MariaDB database server > > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor > > preset: disabled) > > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-09-22 17:46:38 PDT; > > 4min 3s ago > > Main PID: 16261 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) > > > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line > > 139: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line > > 183: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: touch: cannot touch > > `/var/log/mysqld.log': Permission denied > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: chown: cannot access > > `/var/log/mysqld.log': No such file or directory > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com mysqld_safe[16261]: chmod: cannot access > > `/var/log/mysqld.log': No such file or directory > > Sep 22 17:46:37 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service: main process > > exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > > Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service: control process > > exited, code=exited status=1 > > Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database > > server. > > Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: Unit mariadb.service > entered failed > > state. > > Sep 22 17:46:38 goat.xxx.com systemd[1]: mariadb.service failed. > > Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. > > [root at goat ~]# > > > > My environment is a Centos 7 installation running as a VM inside > Vmware, and > > is not a production system. It is updated nightly. > > > > When I examined the files alluded to, > > > > /var/log/mysqld.log > > does not exist > > but > > /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log > > exists and is empty. > >Hi David, > >What do these commands show? > > ls -lF /var/log/mysqld.log > ls -lZ /var/log/mysqld.log > getenforce > >Best regards, >-- >Charles Polisher Charles As the original note pointed out, /var/log/mysqld.log does not exist, as shown by these two commands: [root at goat ~]# ls -1F /var/log/mysqld.log ls: cannot access /var/log/mysqld.log: No such file or directory [root at goat ~]# ls -1Z /var/log/mysqld.log ls: cannot access /var/log/mysqld.log: No such file or directory [root at goat ~]# HOWEVER, /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log does exist and is empty [root at goat ~]# ls -l /var/log/mariadb/* -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Sep 23 10:08 /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log David PS: I forgot to say that SELinux is disabled: [root at goat ~]# getenforce Disabled [root at goat ~]#