Hey, I sent this a while ago, but never received a response. This still seems to exist under 5.0.15-standard (at least under mysql-standard-5.0.15-linux-i686-glibc23)
Can anyone from MySQL comment on this or should I open it as a bug? Thanks, JP On 6/11/05, Jake Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone been able to use a named pipe for their general query log > (or any of the other logfiles for that matter)? > > I tried the following as user mysql: > > rm /var/lib/mysql/myhost.log > mkfifo -m 0660 /var/lib/mysql/myhost.log > > but the mysql server would not start. > > I think it would be very useful to be able to use a FIFO for this so I > can use the log for debugging/info without having to create a log > rotation script. > > I am running 5.0.2-alpha-standard on linux on i386. > > Thanks. > F >
