Background: Solaris 10, MySQL 5.0.45. I have changed something recently that is causing the error log file to be created with mode 660. I would like for it it be mode 664. I admit that I recently changed the my.cnf file and added a log-error line which did not have the fully qualified path and cause mysqld to write the file in the install directory rather than in the data directory, but have since restarted the server without that line.
show variables says the file is in './mysql.server.name.edu.err' . I've been looking at the docs, but can't find any reference to how to set the permissions on that file. I use logadm to rotate the error log file and restart the server. The problem is my monitor software wants to read that file and can't. There's no problem with it being world readable since the server is dedicated to MySQL and no one can log in there. Thanks for any pointers. Steve
