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Hi,
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Christian Hammers wrote:
> The MySQL server has many fprintf(stderr, ...) lines for printing error.
> As mysqld is started from mysqld_safe (or safe_mysqld before 4.x) with
> nohup the output of stderr goes to some file. I guess that is the same
> for all distros.
If they stick closely to how we have written our startup script, yes.
> The problem is now, that I want to rotate this file because endlessly
> growing log files are inelegant and dangerous.
Agreed.
> But I can't as "flush-logs" has no effect on the process' own stderr.
>
> Any ideas? Apart from writing Monty a diff that changes every
> stderr message to a syslog call which at least I would see as
> "the right way(tm)" for a server to talk to me.
This would be quite nice :) Right now, MySQL does not make use of syslog,
except when you compile it with TCP wrapper support (it will then log
denied connections to syslog). Having a configure flag "--with-syslog"
would be a nice addition. It may even be on our ever-growing TODO...
> Oh, I just see, another option could be to enable this option for UNIX,
> too and put this freopen() call into the flush function, too.
If you have a working solution, a patch is always welcome :) Thanks in
advance.
Bye,
LenZ
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