diff --git a/package/mariadb/mysqld.service b/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
index d9ea74ebc3..537430e9a2 100644
--- a/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
+++ b/package/mariadb/mysqld.service
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Description=MySQL database server
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test "`ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | wc -l`" != "0" || mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql && chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql'
-ExecStartPre=install -d -o mysql -g root -m 0755 /var/log/mysql
+ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test "`ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | wc -l`" != "0" || mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql'
+ExecStartPre=!install -d -o mysql -g root -m 0755 /var/log/mysql
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mysqld_safe --log-error=/var/log/mysql/mysqld.log
 Restart=always
 User=mysql