As you will see here the MariaDB monitor is open but the prompt is sql, so obviously the connection is not there. Is this a PATH issue?

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or g.
Your
MySQL connection id is 65
Server version: 8.0.21 MySQL Community
Server – GPL

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type ‘help;’ or ‘h’ for help. Type ‘c’ to clear the current input
statement.

MySQL [(none)]> create database………..

Tried opening MariaDB – was expecting MariaDB prompt and ability to use MariaDB commands