Starting and Stopping MariaDB Server
There are several different methods to start or stop the MariaDB Server
process. There are two primary categories that most of these methods fall
into: starting the process with the help of a service manager, and starting
the process manually.



Service Managers

sysVinit and systemd are the most common Linux service managers. launchd is
used in MacOS X. Upstart is a less common service manager.



Systemd
RHEL/CentOS 7 and above, Debian 8 Jessie and above, and Ubuntu 15.04 and
above use systemd by default.

For information on how to start and stop MariaDB with this service manager,
see systemd: Interacting with the MariaDB Server Process.



SysVinit
RHEL/CentOS 6 and below, and Debian 7 Wheezy and below use sysVinit by
default.

For information on how to start and stop MariaDB with this service manager,
see sysVinit: Interacting with the MariaDB Server Process.



launchd
launchd is used in MacOS X.



Upstart
Ubuntu 14.10 and below use Upstart by default.



Starting the Server Process Manually



mariadbd
mariadbd is the actual MariaDB Server binary. It can be started manually on
its own.



mysqld_safe
mariadbd_safe is a wrapper that can be used to start the mariadbd server
process. The script has some built-in safeguards, such as automatically
restarting the server process if it dies. See mariadbd_safe for more
information.



mysqld_multi
mariadbd_multi is a wrapper that can be used to start the mariadbd server
process if you plan to run multiple server processes on the same host. See
mariadbd_multi for more information.



mysql.server

mysql.server is a wrapper that works as a standard sysVinit script. However,
it can be used independently of sysVinit as a regular sh script. The script
starts the mariadbd server process by first changing its current working
directory to the MariaDB install directory and then starting mysqld_safe.
The script requires the standard sysVinit arguments, such as start, stop,
and status. See mysql.server for more information.