I changed mysql_safe to mysqld_safe and it is still sending the error output to 
$HOSTNAME.err

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:17 AM
To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: mysql error file


At 10:10 -0400 4/7/04, Luc Foisy wrote:
>I have the following in my /etc/my.cnf
>
>[mysqld]
>datadir=/usr/data/mysql
>pid-file=/usr/data/mysql/mysql.pid
>socket=/usr/data/mysql/mysql.sock
>user=mysql
>
>[mysql_safe]
>log-error=/usr/data/mysql/mysql.err
>
>[client]
>socket=/usr/data/mysql/mysql.sock
>
>I tried originally to put the log-error= in the [mysqld] section and 
>it errored out, believe I read somewhere then that it should be in 
>the [mysql_safe] section
>My log file is still writing to $HOSTNAME.err
>
>Is me /etc/my.cnf file wrong in some way?

You might want to use [mysqld_safe] rather than [mysql_safe].

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