Look into the Linux "logrotate" daemon. It allows you to configure what
happens with logs.
At 06:44 AM 6/6/01 -0400, Peter Billson wrote:
>I'm running mySQL on Linux and was wondering is there a way to limit the
>maximum log file size?
>
> From time to time I have written a bad script that will query mySQL in
>a loop (BTW - mySQL can do *lots* of queries/second!) without me
>realizing my mistake until I run out of room on my log partition which
>causes all kinds of Bad things to happen.
> I don't want to reduce the log detail, because normally my logs are
>just fine, just would like to be able to suspend logging when there is
>only x% of disk space left.
>
>Pete
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