[CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

On 4 October 2017 at 16:06, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

>    I have not followed this thread since the first few emails... but has
> anyone suggested the SCL repo? I see mysql 5.6 and 5.7 there.
>

+1 for SCL -
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-mariadb101/