Your research was too quick. (-: Debian 8 packages up mysql 5.5 with only a van Smoorenburg rc script, no systemd units. * https://packages.debian.org/en/jes

Your research was too quick. (-: Debian 8 packages up mysql 5.5 with only a van Smoorenburg rc script, no systemd units. * https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/arm64/mysql-server-5.5/filelist https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/arm64/mysql-server-5.5... Debian 8 only has mysql 5.6 available through backports. That has a systemd service unit, written in 2014 by Akhil Mohan of Oracle. That service unit invokes mysqld_safe, though, in classic systemd House of Horror fashion. * https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie-backports/arm64/mysql-server-5.6/filelist https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie-backports/arm64/mysql-... * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.6.git/tree/debian/mysql-server-5.6.mysql.service?id=fcd2771abdb7cc4809f6dfce6d900dbf612e5113 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.6.git/tree... Apparently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 has no systemd unit files for mysql 5.6, either, and still uses mysqld_safe. * http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/6/idpl/34647467/dir/redhat_el_7/com/MySQL-server-5.6.33-1.el7.x86_64.rpm http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/6/idpl/34647467/dir/red...