sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
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. my.cnf in DEFAULT_SYSCONFDIR (which is a compile option)
my.cnf in $MYSQL_HOME
--defaults-extra-file
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[client] and [server] section in one of the configuration files