Re: Mysqld logs

["Brett Neumeier via supervision" <supervision@list.skarnet.org>]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:40:30 +0100
Paul Sopka <psopka@sopka.ch> wrote:

> Hey everybody
> 
>  From what I could find, mysqld, a server deamon for mysql,
> seems to only be able to output logs to files.
> Is it a bad idea to run it in the following way?
> 
>      mysqld --log_error=/dev/stdout
> 
> e.g. in that there any Unix you know about that does not support 
> /dev/stdout?

I don't know of any. If you're concerned, though, you can always
create a FIFO and write log output to it, and then read from that
FIFO in your logging service. That's my common practice when a
program prefers to write log messages to a file. (Or when I set up
a program to write to several different logs, like nginx.)

One thing, though -- MariaDB is the fork of MySQL that I use, and
it has a `--console` option that causes those messages to be written
to stdout already. Perhaps MySQL has that option as well?
That would be even simpler.

Cheers,

Brett

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Brett Neumeier <random@freesa.org>