How do I start MariaDB on boot on Mac OS X?

Question

Just installed MariaDB (with homebrew). Everything looks like it\'s working, but I can\'t figure out how to have it automatically startup on boot on my Mac. I can\'t find any

Answer 1

You need to use launchd. See $ man launchd.

Additionally, Nathan wrote a good article on launchd.

Answer 2

If you install MariaDB by Homebrew, you can use this to see how to start your mariadb at login.

brew info mariadb

To have launchd start mariadb at login:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mariadb/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Then to load mariadb now:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist

Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:

mysql.server start

Answer 3

From brew info mariadb

To have launchd start mariadb now and restart at login:
  brew services start mariadb
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  mysql.server start

Just run brew services start mariadb on terminal.

Answer 4

With help from Calvin's answer (deleted, I guess?), and this page, these are the steps I used to accomplish this:

cp /usr/local/Cellar/mariadb/5.5.30/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist

On next boot, MariaDB was up and running.