From: Elim Qiu Date: August 2 2012 4:55pm Subject: manage mysql-bin.xxxxxx files on mac List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/227938 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I don't really know how to use those files and so like to know how to stop populating them. or at least control the number and size of them. I'm running os x 10.6.8, mysql Server version: 5.1.61-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) I tried comment out the line "log-bin=mysql-bin" and those mysql-bin.xxxxxx files in the data directory. It causes mysql server starting failure. So what's advise here? Thanks