Tony van der Hoff (12020-11-11): > It is known that the maintainers of MariaDB deprecate the database files > residing under /home, in fact going so far as making it an error, unless > /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service has ProtectHome=true commented out. > > Now, this is all very well, and I'm sure there are good reasons for it, but > I want my databases to reside in /home. Unfortunately, each time there's an > upgrade to the package my preferred setting gets overwritten, resulting in > MariaDB failing to start, and my having to edit the service file on a number > of machines. > > I'd consider this a bug, but is there at least any way of making my change > more permanent?
It is not a bug, only files residing in /etc can be modified by the administrator. I suggest you read about systemd's drop-in configuration files and the edit command in the systemctl(1) man page. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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