systemd (Linux)

MariaDB on systemd (Linux): overview, supported distributions, and links to operational and configuration guidance.

systemd is a sysVinit replacement that is the default service manager on the following Linux distributions:

• RHEL 7 and above

• CentOS 7 and above

• Fedora 15 and above

• Debian 8 and above

• Ubuntu 15.04 and above

• SLES 12 and above

• OpenSUSE 12.2 and above

MariaDB's systemd unit file is included in the server packages for RPMs and DEBs. It is also included in certain binary tarballs.

The service name is mariadb.service.

In this Section

• Starting MariaDB on systemd — installing, starting, stopping, restarting, and inspecting the MariaDB service, including multi-instance setups, Galera Cluster integration, and the systemd journal.

• Configuring MariaDB for systemd — drop-in configuration files, timeouts, open-file and core-size limits, LimitMEMLOCK (io_uring and aio), error-log redirection, home-directory access, umask, data directory, socket activation, and converting mariadbd-safe options to systemd options. Also includes a quick-setup script for developers running MariaDB from a build directory.

Contents of the MariaDB Service's Unit File

The contents of the mariadb.service file can be examined with systemctl show mariadb.service.

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