[mythtv-users] Update: problem solved! Thank you! Details inside.

[A. F. Cano]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 05:16:55PM +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:57:20 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Then I had to kill the mysqld_safe that was running in the other shell
> >and restart mysqld (/etc/init.d/mysqld start).
> 
> What distro are you running?  If it uses systemd, then I am surprised

Debian stable.

> the /etc/init.d/ commands actually work.  On a systemd based distro,

They obviously have been updated to deal with systemctl.  I get
systemctl feedback when running them.  I still use them out of habit.

> that command should be:
> 
> systemctl start mariadb
> 
> The mariadb.service file normally provides aliases so that "systemctl
> start mysql" and "systemctl start mysqld" also work.

Yes, it would be a good idea to use those.

Augustine