--log-update to tape drive?

Hi all, Is it possible to use a tape drive (/dev/ht0 in my case) as the destination for mysql logging? MySQL manual only mentions outputting to disk file. Example: % safe-mysqld --log-update= tar -czvf /dev/ht0/mysql-update.log I've tried the above with the following error in the error log:

Re: --log-update to tape drive?

At 11:16 AM -0400 9/4/01, Nick Willey wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to use a tape drive (/dev/ht0 in my case) as the destination for mysql logging? MySQL manual only mentions outputting to disk file. Example: % safe-mysqld --log-update= tar -czvf /dev/ht0/mysql-update.log I've tried the above