Hello.
Please, CC your answers to the list as well. Put log_error=path_to_error_log in your configuration file (my.ini usually). See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/error-log.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html >I'm sorry, but I see no mention in either of those references as to the >correct syntax for turning on error messages in the MySQL Windows >config file. This isn't surprising, as I had spent some time consulting >my existing docs and online. I could, I suppose, extrapolate from >revising the command line invocation of mysql, but that was not the >question or intent here. >What am I missing? Since you chose not to actually provide a context >for your invocation of URLs, I have no idea whether you were trying to >answer the question I actually asked, or were answering something else, >entirely. At 08:18 AM 12/3/2005, you wrote: > Hello. > > See: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/windows-start-service.html > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/program-options.html > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I haven't admin'd MySQL in a couple of years, and I have forgotten and lot > > (and probably never knew even more.) > > > > I recently installed the current 4.1x MySQL release in Windows XP. I am > > trying to track down problems, and can't seem to get an error log. I > > expected to see a file, mysql.err in the data directory. > > > > Not only isn't it there, but trying to add something like > > > > err-log (extrapolating from the --err-log I'd used in Unix) > > > > in the mysqld area of the my.ini file prevents the server from launching, > > so that is clearly either not the correct syntax or not the correct place > > for such a line (or both). > > > > Next, is there supposed to be a way to start/restart MySQL in Windows > > other than by going to the Services panel for the general computer? Is > > this something that can be done from the command line? > > > > Many thanks, > > ari > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
