** Description changed: - Currently the stock my.cnf included in the package mysql-common - specifies that an error log is created at /var/log/mysql/error.log. The - logrotate conf file /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server (part of mysql- - server-5.1) doesn't take this file into account so it can continue to - grow forever unchecked. In fact, the logrotate conf file states that - /var/log/mysql/error.log has the comment "The error log is obsolete, + The stock my.cnf file (part of mysql-common) specifies that an error log + is to be created at /var/log/mysql/error.log. The logrotate conf file + /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server (part of mysql-server-5.1) doesn't take + this file into account so it can continue to grow forever unchecked. + + The logrotate conf file has the comment "The error log is obsolete, messages go to syslog now.". These packages are not in agreement with - each other and the result is that the error.log file can grow very large - because it's never rotated. I'm currently using Natty but this bug is - also present in the Oneric packages. + each other. I'm currently using Natty but this bug is also present in + the Oneric packages.
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