On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:00:50AM -0000, reini wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Every day, I get a mail from the cron daemon that the logrotate script > for mysql failed to run: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: > '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists! > > > I don't know what the little telephone is supposed to imply, but the mail is > hugely annoying in the long run. > I only use mysql as a database for some projects I'm developing and therefore > rarely need to run it. Since this is a laptop, I prefer to keep it inactive > unless I need it. The logrotate script therefore usually can't connect to a > running mysql daemon. > > I would expect the script to silently do nothing, since this is not an > error. >
Well - this is an edge use case. Most of the systems that have mysql-server installed are running mysqld as a daemon and expect it to be running all the time. If the daemon is not running, it may be a good thing that a notice is sent. I don't know whether it should be a message from logrotate though. importance low status confirmed -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com ** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- MySQL logrotate script returns with error when server isn't running https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to mysql-dfsg-5.1 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
