Thank you, Matt. I appreciate the feedback. I've filed a couple bugs
against mysql-server and mariadb-server. Either they should depend on
some syslog or they should their installation scripts should be written
to detect a logger and function accordingly.

Hopefully someone will get a move on. If not, I've got gafer tape in
place. Actually it's probably more like chewing gum...!

Cheers,

Simon

On 07/18/2016 08:11 PM, Matthew Melton wrote:
> Replying to myself:
>
> http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:databases:install_mariadb_on_slackware
>
> Is probably the order I had to do things. Note the changing of permissions.
>
> Whether this has any relevance to your issue or not I don't know.
>
> I'll be under my rock if you wish to ignore me.
>
> Matt
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 18 Jul 2016, at 11:57, Matthew Melton <mjm@???
> <mailto:mjm@mjmworks.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>>
>> This sounds very familiar. Though I think I was using Slackware
>> installing from slack builds. My hand written notes say something
>> about mysql_install_db --user=...
>> Left the /var/lib/mysql/ with the wrong permissions.
>> Or something.
>> And something to do with running mysql_secure_installation instead.
>>
>> Maybe that might help.
>>
>> It's been a while. And due to the evidence of my handwriting I'm
>> afraid I appear to have been terribly, terribly, drunk.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <simon@???
>> <mailto:simon@gikaku.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
>>>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_czr@???
>>>> <mailto:aitor_czr@gnuinos.org>):
>>>>
>>>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :)
>>>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike
>>>> (binary drop-in replacement).
>>>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>>>
>>> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb.
>>>
>>> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin
>>> 2>&1 | $ERR_LOGGER
>>>
>>> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is
>>> not really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I
>>> should report this to two package maintainers.
>>>
>>> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb.
>>>
>>> Simon
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>> On 18 Jul 2016, at 01:36, Simon Walter <simon@???
>> <mailto:simon@gikaku.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/18/2016 08:15 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
>>>> Quoting aitor_czr (aitor_czr@???
>>>> <mailto:aitor_czr@gnuinos.org>):
>>>>
>>>>> > The substitute for MySQL is MariaDB :)
>>>> What you said. ;-> MariaDB is a 100% compatible workalike
>>>> (binary drop-in replacement).
>>>> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/
>>>
>>> Same installation bug(?) with mariadb.
>>>
>>> bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --user=mysql --disable-log-bin
>>> 2>&1 | $ERR_LOGGER
>>>
>>> I thought it would be the case. As it is drop-in replacemen, there is
>>> not really any reason to re-write the package scripts. So I guess I
>>> should report this to two package maintainers.
>>>
>>> Thanks for reminding me of mariadb.
>>>
>>> Simon
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