hello monty et al i'm trying to write an init script for maria and artix, which is using openrc I got it to start up but the pid-file is a problem and I think that the command line options for mysqld_safe is not working. it doesnt create the specified pid file [www3 ~]# /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --pid-file=/run/mariadb.pid 170926 10:41:52 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/www3.err'. 170926 10:41:52 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var [www3 ~]# cat /run/mariadb.pid cat: /run/mariadb.pid: No such file or directory [www3 ~]# tail -f /usr/local/var/www3.err 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287336192 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active. 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287336192 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287336192 [Note] InnoDB: Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.36-82.0 started; log sequence number 1601111 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287336192 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139827658368768 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287171328 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gtid_slave_pos: 1146: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828287336192 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828286868224 [ERROR] mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/run/mariadb.pid' (Errcode: 13 "Permission denied") 2017-09-26 10:41:53 139828286868224 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 170926 10:41:53 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /run/mariadb.pid ended drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 620 Sep 25 21:45 run what do you recommend to do? The system is uniform -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013