[mythtv-users] MySQL log files growing alarmingly
Bill
Bill at explosivo.com
Thu Feb 8 04:12:56 UTC 2007
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:09:45 -0500
Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> spake:
> Hi,
>
> I set up a MythTV system about a week ago and I've discovered that my MySQL
> log files are growing at an alarming rate. I know next to nothing about
> MySQL, and the log files in question don't look like ordinary log files, so
> I'm reluctant to mess with them without guidance. I'm running Ubuntu 6.10
> with the MythTV 0.20 and MySQL packages that came with it. The log files
> appear in /var/log/mysql and are called mysql-bin.000001 and up (to
> mysql-bin.000047 at the moment). In total, the /var/log/mysql directory is
> now 270MB in size (on a 1GB partition), and I don't see any rules in the
> Ubuntu log file rotation configuration to touch these files, although there
> are rules to handle other (so far much smaller) MySQL log files.
>
> So, any advice on this? (A pointer to a Web page would be fine, provided it
> assumes little or no knowledge of MySQL.) Can these files be rotated by
> logrotate, or is there some better way to handle it?
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
This may be what you are seeing...
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/binary-log.html
>
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