MariaDB

mysqld_safe: the recommended script to start mysqld

mysqladmin: adminstering mysqld: used to monitor sessions, show statistics, create and drop databases, flush logs, kill queries, stop the server etc.

Default options from the first file found in the following list (seems to be subject to changes over time)

• /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf (might be symlinked from /etc/my.cnf)
• /etc/mysql/my.cnf
• my.cnf in DEFAULT_SYSCONFDIR (which is a compile option)
• my.cnf in $MYSQL_HOME
• file specified with --defaults-extra-file
• ~/my.cnf

Default ist latin 1. In order to use UTF-8, add

default-character-set = utf8mb4

to the [client] and [server] section in one of the configuration files

/etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf, /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d