Re: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +0200, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Doh!  The postrotate script is in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server:
> 
>   test -x /usr/bin/mysqladmin || exit 0
> 
>   # If this fails, check debian.conf! 
>   export HOME=/etc/mysql/my.cnf
>   MYADMIN="/usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf"
>   if [ -z "`$MYADMIN ping 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
>     # Really no mysqld or rather a missing debian-sys-maint user?
>     # If this occurs and is not a error please report a bug.
>     if ps cax | grep -q mysqld; then
>       exit 1
>     fi 
>   else
>     $MYADMIN flush-logs
>   fi
> 
> Now what could be causing the error?   Hmm....
> 

Well, run the script manually one line at a time.  First, read
/etc/mysql/debian.cnf to determine under what user you should run
things (I've never used mysql).  Also, read the mysqladmin man page.

Doug.