From: Honza Horak
Date: February 22 2012 5:16pm
Subject: logrotate script doesn't create a new log file
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Hi all,

I'm thinking of logrotate script, that is shipped in mysql tar ball 
(e.g. mysql-5.5.20/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh). There is a 
commented line "# create 600 mysql mysql", that should originally ensure 
logrotate utility creates a new log file after rotating. Is there any 
particular reason why the line is not used by default?

Having this line commented, we have to rely on logrotate.conf to have 
something similar defined and we see an error when using mysql-rotate 
script alone, such as:

 > logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/mysqld

I think the line shouldn't be commented by default.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks.

Honza