mysql.server (1) Linux Manual Page
mysql.server – MariaDB server startup script
Synopsis
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mysql {start|stop}
Description
mysql.server. It can be used on systems such as Linux and Solaris that use System V-style run directories to start and stop system services. It is also used by the Mac OS X Startup Item for MariaDB.
mysql.server can be found in the support-files directory under your MariaDB installation directory or in a MariaDB source distribution.
If you use the Linux server RPM package (MySQL-server-VERSION.rpm), the mysql.server script will be installed in the /etc/init.d directory with the name mysql. You need not install it manually.
Some vendors provide RPM packages that install a startup script under a different name such as mysqld.
If you install MariaDB from a source distribution or using a binary distribution format that does not install mysql.server automatically, you can install it manually.
mysql.server reads options from the [mysql.server] and [mysqld] sections of option files. For backward compatibility, it also reads [mysql_server] sections, although you should rename such sections to [mysql.server]&.
mysql.server supports the following options.
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–basedir=pathThe path to the MariaDB installation directory.
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–datadir=pathThe path to the MariaDB data directory.
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–pid-file=file_nameThe path name of the file in which the server should write its process ID. If not provided, the default, "host_name.pid" is used.
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–service-startup-timeout=file_nameHow long in seconds to wait for confirmation of server startup. If the server does not start within this time,
mysql.serverexits with an error. The default value is 900. A value of 0 means not to wait at all for startup. Negative values mean to wait forever (no timeout).
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–use-mysqld_safeUse
mysqld_safeto start the server. This is the default.
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–use-managerUse Instance Manager to start the server.
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–user=user_nameThe login user name to use for running
mysqld.
Copyright
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2015 MariaDB Foundation
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See Also
For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/
Author
MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).