i believe you've the replication option turned on.

see http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Replication_Options.html for more
details.

mysql mailing list user wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I my mysql server database directory (that is the directory that holds the
> .err and .pid files) so strange files have apeared. They look line
> 
>   <machine-name>-bin.001
>   <machine-name>-bin.002
>   etc
>   <machine-name>-bin.index
> 
> Some of them are huge!  They seem like binary files, but are full readable
> SQL commands that could be from my applications.
> 
> What is going on.... can I delete them?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Howard Miller
> 
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