On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:40:30 +0100 Paul Sopka <pso...@sopka.ch> wrote:
> Hey everybody > > From what I could find, mysqld, a server deamon for mysql, > seems to only be able to output logs to files. > Is it a bad idea to run it in the following way? > > mysqld --log_error=/dev/stdout > > e.g. in that there any Unix you know about that does not support > /dev/stdout? I don't know of any. If you're concerned, though, you can always create a FIFO and write log output to it, and then read from that FIFO in your logging service. That's my common practice when a program prefers to write log messages to a file. (Or when I set up a program to write to several different logs, like nginx.) One thing, though -- MariaDB is the fork of MySQL that I use, and it has a `--console` option that causes those messages to be written to stdout already. Perhaps MySQL has that option as well? That would be even simpler. Cheers, Brett -- Brett Neumeier <ran...@freesa.org>
