How to limit mysql log files?
my debian.log file grows due to mysql errors which is located in /var/lib/mysql/debian.log …….. already edit the /etc/mysql/my.conf file sending the errors to / var / log / mysql / error.log with a size of 100M and expires after 10 days …….. the problem is that debian.log reached 270G and left me without space on the hard disk … …… I delete it and it recreates and grows …… I'm new to linode sorry :(
#general_log_file= /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
general_log= 1
#
# Error log - should be very few entries.
#
log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log
#
# Here you can see queries with especially long duration
slow_query_log_file = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
slow_query_log= 1
long_query_time = 2
log_queries_not_using_indexes
#
# The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
# note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about
# other settings you may need to change.
#server-id = 1
log_bin = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
expire_logs_days = 10
max_binlog_size = 100M
#binlog_do_db = include_database_name
#binlog_ignore_db = include_database_name
#
# * InnoDB
#
# InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
# Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
#
2 Replies
@petterGil --
When you copy/paste from log/configuration files, you need to put the text between lines that consist of 3 backquotes (the character next to the '1' key)
like this
to turn off the Markdown processing of your text. Your config file entries are nearly unreadable otherwise ('#' is a marker character in Markdown).
That being said…
You can rotate/compress/delete your logs automagically with logrotate(8)…with automatic compression and automatic deletion of "old" logs. logrotate(8) is run automatically by cron(8). You can configure it by placing a configuration file for mysql in /var/log/logrotate.d. There's probably already one there so you just have to modify it (correctly).
See man logrotate for more information…
For example, this is what I use for /var/log/kern.log (which I'm assuming is the same as your /var/log/debian.log):
/var/log/kern.log
{
rotate 6 # keep 6 log files
weekly # rotate weekly
missingok # it's ok if the log file is empty
notifempty # don't rotate if the log file is empty
compress # compress after rotation (using gzip)
delaycompress # delay compression (kern.log.1 will be
# uncompressed while kern.log.2,3,4,5,6 will be
# compressed)
sharedscripts # a single script may be run multiple times for
# log file entries which match multiple
# files (such as /var/log/mail.*)
postrotate # do this block AFTER rotation
/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
endscript
create 0644 root adm # create the new log with this owner/permissions
}
I end up with this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 8021293 Oct 14 05:59 /var/log/kern.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 17349660 Oct 11 00:00 /var/log/kern.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2251240 Oct 3 23:59 /var/log/kern.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2239675 Sep 26 23:59 /var/log/kern.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2428443 Sep 19 23:59 /var/log/kern.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2312863 Sep 12 23:59 /var/log/kern.log.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2070801 Sep 5 23:59 /var/log/kern.log.6.gz
-- sw
