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+description     "MariaDB 10.1 Server"
+author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com>"
+
+start on runlevel [2345]
+stop on runlevel [016]
+
+respawn
+respawn limit 2 5
+
+env HOME=/etc/mysql
+umask 007
+
+# The default of 5 seconds is too low for mysql which needs to flush buffers
+kill timeout 300
+
+pre-start script
+    ## Fetch a particular option from mysql's invocation.
+    # Usage: void mysqld_get_param option
+    mysqld_get_param() {
+      /usr/sbin/mysqld --print-defaults \
+        | tr " " "\n" \
+        | grep -- "--$1" \
+        | tail -n 1 \
+        | cut -d= -f2
+    }
+
+    # priority can be overriden and "-s" adds output to stderr
+    ERR_LOGGER="logger -p daemon.err -t /etc/init/mysql.conf -i"
+
+    #Sanity checks
+    [ -r $HOME/my.cnf ]
+    [ -d /var/run/mysqld ] || install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d /var/run/mysqld
+    /lib/init/apparmor-profile-load usr.sbin.mysqld
+
+    # check for diskspace shortage
+    datadir=`mysqld_get_param datadir`
+    BLOCKSIZE=`LC_ALL=C df --portability $datadir/. | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $4}'`
+    if [ $BLOCKSIZE -le 4096 ] ; then
+      echo "$0: ERROR: The partition with $datadir is too full!" >&2
+      echo "ERROR: The partition with $datadir is too full!" | $ERR_LOGGER
+      exit 1
+    fi
+end script
+
+exec /usr/sbin/mysqld
+
+post-start script
+   for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
+        /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file="${HOME}"/debian.cnf ping && {
+            exec "${HOME}"/debian-start
+            # should not reach this line
+            exit 2
+        }
+        statusnow=`status`
+        if echo $statusnow | grep -q 'stop/' ; then
+            exit 0
+        elif echo $statusnow | grep -q 'respawn/' ; then
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 1
+    done
+    exit 1
+end script