Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Jake Peavy wrote: On 5/4/07, Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Jake Peavy wrote: > On 5/4/07, Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Mark Leith wrote: >> > Baron Schwartz wrote: >> >> I will test again on my servers now that I have upgraded to 5.0.38. >> >> One questi

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Jake Peavy
On 5/4/07, Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Jake Peavy wrote: > On 5/4/07, Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Mark Leith wrote: >> > Baron Schwartz wrote: >> >> I will test again on my servers now that I have upgraded to 5.0.38. >> >> One question for people for whom e

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Leith
Baron Schwartz wrote: I think we've found the bug. I just did a bunch of tests and I'm 99% sure not only does expire_logs_days not work if there are slaves attached, neither does PURGE MASTER LOGS. When I read my email this morning, Nagios alerted me the master server was over the expected d

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Jake Peavy wrote: On 5/4/07, Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Leith wrote: > Baron Schwartz wrote: >> I will test again on my servers now that I have upgraded to 5.0.38. >> One question for people for whom expire_logs_days DOES work: do you >> have any slaves connected to the

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Baron Schwartz
Mark Leith wrote: Baron Schwartz wrote: I will test again on my servers now that I have upgraded to 5.0.38. One question for people for whom expire_logs_days DOES work: do you have any slaves connected to the server? I did not within my test. I could easily add that if need be however.. L

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Leith
Baron Schwartz wrote: I will test again on my servers now that I have upgraded to 5.0.38. One question for people for whom expire_logs_days DOES work: do you have any slaves connected to the server? I did not within my test. I could easily add that if need be however.. Let me know if your

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-03 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:55 PM -0400 5/3/07, Baron Schwartz wrote: Mark Leith wrote: Paul DuBois wrote: At 8:46 PM -0400 5/2/07, Baron Schwartz wrote: Ofer Inbar wrote: That's a good point, though probably a minor one: At most you would end up with one binary logfile that's "old" and not deleted. As soon as yo

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-03 Thread Baron Schwartz
Mark Leith wrote: Paul DuBois wrote: At 8:46 PM -0400 5/2/07, Baron Schwartz wrote: Ofer Inbar wrote: That's a good point, though probably a minor one: At most you would end up with one binary logfile that's "old" and not deleted. As soon as you create a new one, that one would be deleted (i

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-03 Thread Mark Leith
Paul DuBois wrote: At 8:46 PM -0400 5/2/07, Baron Schwartz wrote: Ofer Inbar wrote: That's a good point, though probably a minor one: At most you would end up with one binary logfile that's "old" and not deleted. As soon as you create a new one, that one would be deleted (if this feature wor

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Paul DuBois
At 8:46 PM -0400 5/2/07, Baron Schwartz wrote: Ofer Inbar wrote: Mark Leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do keep in mind that expire_logs_days only gets triggered at a) server start up b) the time a binary log has to roll over. If your binary logs do not roll over for quite a period of time (i

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Baron Schwartz
Ofer Inbar wrote: Mark Leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do keep in mind that expire_logs_days only gets triggered at a) server start up b) the time a binary log has to roll over. If your binary logs do not roll over for quite a period of time (i.e are lower load systems) that still stay up fo

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Ofer Inbar
Mark Leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do keep in mind that expire_logs_days only gets triggered at a) server > start up b) the time a binary log has to roll over. > > If your binary logs do not roll over for quite a period of time (i.e are > lower load systems) that still stay up for long peri

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Leith
Mark Leith wrote: Juan Eduardo Moreno wrote: Hi, I'm experience using expire_log_days and don't work. I set this parameters in the CNF and when the time of ( for example 5 days) is in, don't delete anything. On my expirience, this parameters don't work ( 5.0.27). I am testing this now (on

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Leith
Juan Eduardo Moreno wrote: Hi, I'm experience using expire_log_days and don't work. I set this parameters in the CNF and when the time of ( for example 5 days) is in, don't delete anything. On my expirience, this parameters don't work ( 5.0.27). I am testing this now (on 5.0.40) and will se

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Baron Schwartz
Ofer Inbar wrote: Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, the manual does mention the variable, but it doesn't work for us. We run a nightly cron job that just runs [purge master logs] When you say "it doesn't work for us" do you mean that you tried it? In what way did it not work

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Juan Eduardo Moreno
Hi, I'm experience using expire_log_days and don't work. I set this parameters in the CNF and when the time of ( for example 5 days) is in, don't delete anything. On my expirience, this parameters don't work ( 5.0.27). Regards Juan On 5/2/07, Ofer Inbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baron Schwa

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Ofer Inbar
Baron Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, the manual does mention the variable, but it doesn't work > for us. We run a nightly cron job that just runs [purge master logs] When you say "it doesn't work for us" do you mean that you tried it? In what way did it not work? Tim Lucia <[EMA

RE: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:55 AM > To: Ofer Inbar > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: expire_logs_days > > Hi, > > Ofer Inbar wrote: > > There's a system variable

Re: expire_logs_days

2007-05-02 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Ofer Inbar wrote: There's a system variable called expire_logs_days that lets you set a number of days to keep binary logs, and automatically delete logs older than that. I've heard rumors that using this feature is problematic. I notice that in the MySQL documentation about binary logging