Subject: Re: MySQL: "errors rotating logs" email(s)
From: Jason P. Stanford (jps3@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 13:02:03 MDT
Thanks! In the four years I've been using Linux, I'd never noticed or
looked in the /etc/logrotate.d directory. Something new every day... :)
Rich Lafferty wrote:
>
> Quoting Jason P. Stanford (jps3@Lehigh.EDU) from Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:31:40PM -0400:
> > I keep getting the following email. What does this mean? Is there an
> > error or omission in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql script? My understanding
> > is that usually one redirects the safe_mysqld script to a log file, but
> > this is likely a bad recollection of some old documentation. Do I need
> > to do anything, or is this "error" harmless?
> >
> > > errors occured while rotating /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log
> > >
> > > stat of /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log failed: No such file or directory
>
> Well, I don't know the mysql side -- I don't use it. But if you're sure
> that the nonexistance of /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log isn't a problem, then
> you can add 'missingok' to its section in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql (or
> a similarly-named file :-). If it's the wrong path that's causing the
> problem, just update the path in that file.
>
> -Rich
>
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> ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
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