Bug 208324

Summary:	dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2: binary logs created in inappropriate directory
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alessandro Zarrilli <alessandro>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Alessandro Zarrilli 2008-01-31 17:20:43 UTC

I created a big partition to store MySQL data and mounted it in /var/lib/mysql. Anyway after some days I had problems because my /var partition was full: after some investigation I found out dev-db/mysql-5.0.44-r2 enables by default "binary logs" and what's most surprising it saves them in /var/run/mysqld directory, in my opinion an absolutely inappropriate directory for such thing.

I propose to:
1) MANDATORY: configure an appropriate default binary logging directory in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
2) OPTIONAL: disable by default binary logging by commenting out "log-bin" directive in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, so that this feature starts as disabled and, if the user enables it, binary logs will be saved in an appropriate directory (see previous step).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-31 17:26:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205174 ***