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-rw-r--r--support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh b/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
index a1153c66f40..0ee78b0f7ca 100644
--- a/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
+++ b/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-# This logname is set in mysql.server.sh that ends up in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
+# This logname can be set in /etc/my.cnf
+# by setting the variable "err-log"
+# in the [safe_mysqld] section as follows:
+#
+# [safe_mysqld]
+# err-log=@localstatedir@/mysqld.log
#
# If the root user has a password you have to create a
# /root/.my.cnf configuration file with the following
@@ -22,8 +27,10 @@
compress
postrotate
# just if mysqld is really running
- if test -n "`ps acx|grep mysqld`"; then
- @bindir@/mysqladmin flush-logs
+ if test -x @bindir@/mysqladmin && \
+ @bindir@/mysqladmin ping &>/dev/null
+ then
+ @bindir@/mysqladmin flush-logs
fi
endscript
}