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[Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/12/2008, at 1:26 PM, Gena01 wrote:
> I did find the entries in /var/log/daemon and /var/log/syslog. However
> this is what threw me off before:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_log
>
> explicitly says:
>
> Log errors and startup messages to this file. See Section 5.2.1, “The
> Error Log”. If you omit the filename, MySQL uses host_name.err. If the
> filename has no extension, the server adds an extension of .err.
>
> So it seems that the syslog behavior is different from what
> documentation says.


Yep, it's the syslog patch in OurDelta that does that, and  
intentionally so.
(it comes from the Percona set of patches, and the same mechanism is  
used in any Debian based distro such as Ubuntu).

I think the bug in this case relates to the lack of documentation on  
the OurDelta site about this particular patch, which caught you unaware.


Regards,
Arjen.
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