According to the doc for this parameter, "Possible removals happen at startup and at binary log rotation." This implies that removal is not automatic - you have to either flush logs or bounce the server. We use "Purge Master" periodically.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I hope someone can help. Due to they way my HD has been sliced I had > to move mysql database to /usr/local/mysql. All works fine. Last week > I added this entry: > > #expire bin logs > expire_logs_days = 7 > > to /usr/local/mysql/my.cnf > > I restarted the MySQL server and now I have been waiting for the > binlogs to automatically expire but this is not happening: > > $ ls -l /usr/local/mysql > > -r--r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 4954 Oct 1 07:30 my.cnf > drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 1536 Sep 27 07:10 mysql > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073745213 Sep 2 04:07 mysql-bin.000047 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073746878 Sep 7 03:48 mysql-bin.000048 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073745707 Sep 11 20:07 mysql-bin.000049 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 175527890 Sep 12 08:32 mysql-bin.000050 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 128272 Sep 12 08:40 mysql-bin.000051 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073745119 Sep 17 04:35 mysql-bin.000052 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073747657 Sep 22 04:26 mysql-bin.000053 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073744456 Sep 27 03:28 mysql-bin.000054 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 986782722 Oct 1 07:32 mysql-bin.000055 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1073742442 Oct 6 04:18 mysql-bin.000056 > -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 536487381 Oct 8 07:45 mysql-bin.000057 > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 209 Oct 6 04:18 mysql-bin.index > > Do you have any idea why? Or if /usr/local/mysql/ is a correct > location for my.cnf file? Perhaphs it should go to /usr/local/etc/ ? > > If it matters, I use mysql-server-5.0.67 on FreeBSD 7.0-Release machine. > > Many thanks! > > -- > Zbigniew Szalbot > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jim Lyons Web developer / Database administrator http://www.weblyons.com
