Werner Stuerenburg writes:
> To track down problems, I downloaded hostname.err, hostname.log
> and hostname-slow.log and, as these were quite big (log = 350
> MB), I deleted them on the host.
>
> I remember that I turned on slow query logging and did not create
> the log myself. Therefore, I assumed that MySQL would create all
> these files anew.
>
> Instead, I found a new file called hostname-bin.001 which grew
> rapidly and has nearly 800 MB after a week. I had a quick look
> into that file and it looked pretty much like a log file to me.
> I couldn't find any information about this kind of beast.
>
> Finally, I created empty files hostname.err, hostname.log and
> hostname-slow.log yesterday and find that .err and .log have been
> written to, which may be normal. In addition, .001 has been
> written to also recently.
>
> Any explanation to what is happening here? My ISP says they
> didn't do anything with MySQL.
>
> --
> Herzlich
> Werner Stuerenburg
Hi!
Check up startup variables or global config file.
You have turned binary logging or replication ON.
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