it's a shame that even MySQl 5.7 options are unknown in MariaDB 10.3 which was *long* after ------------------------------------------ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_... [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'log-syslog=1' don't set "log-error" is sloppy crap and results in way to much long lines with repeated stuff - hell either support proper config or just don't spit date/time to stdout/stderr, journald knows it anyways Aug 16 20:23:09 backupserver mysqld[315856]: 2020-08-16 20:23:09 6 [Note] Slave I/O thread exiting, read up to log 'bin.000012', position 15906130 ------------------------------------------ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_... log_error_verbosity = 2 2020-08-16 22:17:46 0 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'log_error_verbosity=2' ------------------------------------------