After installing mariadb-server-10.0.25p0v1.tgz
and rcctl enable mysqld /etc/rc.d/mysqld start I got errors Directly running /usr/local/libexec/mysqld gave 160908 10:07:09 [Note] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld (mysqld 10.0.25-MariaDB) starting as process 15703 ... 160908 10:07:09 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/mysql/test.lower-test /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/mysql/' (Errcode: 2 "No such file or directory") 160908 10:07:09 [ERROR] Aborting As a guess, I installed mariadb-tests-10.0.25v1.tgz which fixed the problem.
