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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:08:08 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mysql binlogs and their expiry times
Message-ID:  <20081008060808.GA68413@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0810072248t7143c6am7b5740a7d770317d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <94136a2c0810072248t7143c6am7b5740a7d770317d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:48:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I hope someone can help. Due to they way my HD has been sliced I had
> to move mysql database to /usr/local/mysql. All works fine. Last week
> I added this entry
> 
> #expire bin logs
> expire_logs_days = 7
> 
> to /usr/local/mysql/my.cnf
> 
> I restarted the MySQL server and now I have been waiting for the
> binlogs to automatically expire but this is not happening:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/local/mysql
> 
> -r--r--r--  1 mysql  mysql        4954 Oct  1 07:30 my.cnf
> drwx------  2 mysql  mysql        1536 Sep 27 07:10 mysql
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073745213 Sep  2 04:07 mysql-bin.000047
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073746878 Sep  7 03:48 mysql-bin.000048
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073745707 Sep 11 20:07 mysql-bin.000049
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql   175527890 Sep 12 08:32 mysql-bin.000050
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql      128272 Sep 12 08:40 mysql-bin.000051
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073745119 Sep 17 04:35 mysql-bin.000052
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073747657 Sep 22 04:26 mysql-bin.000053
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073744456 Sep 27 03:28 mysql-bin.000054
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql   986782722 Oct  1 07:32 mysql-bin.000055
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  1073742442 Oct  6 04:18 mysql-bin.000056
> -rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql   536487381 Oct  8 07:45 mysql-bin.000057
> -rw-r-----  1 mysql  mysql         209 Oct  6 04:18 mysql-bin.index
> 
> Do you have any idea why? Or if /usr/local/mysql/ is a correct
> location for my.cnf file? Perhaphs it should go to /usr/local/etc/ ?
> 
> If it matters, I use
> $ pkg_info -Ix mysql-s
> mysql-server-5.0.67 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
> from ports.

Shouldn't this question be going to the MySQL people and not FreeBSD?

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