Re: what happened to error log in MySQL 4.1x/Windows XP

[Gleb Paharenko <suppressed>]

Hello.

Please, CC your answers to the list as well. Put
log_error=path_to_error_log in your configuration file (my.ini
usually). See:
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/error-log.html
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html



>I'm sorry, but I see no mention in either of those references as to the
>correct syntax for turning on error messages in the MySQL Windows
>config file. This isn't surprising, as I had spent some time consulting
>my existing docs and online. I could, I suppose, extrapolate from
>revising the command line invocation of mysql, but that was not the
>question or intent here.

>What am I missing? Since you chose not to actually provide a context
>for your invocation of URLs, I have no idea whether you were trying to
>answer the question I actually asked, or were answering something else,
>entirely.


At 08:18 AM 12/3/2005, you wrote:

> Hello.
>
> See:
>   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/windows-start-service.html
>   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/program-options.html
>
> suppressed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't admin'd MySQL in a couple of years, and I have forgotten
and lot
> > (and probably never knew even more.)
> >
> > I recently installed the current 4.1x MySQL release in Windows XP. I am
> > trying to track down problems, and can't seem to get an error log. I
> > expected to see a file, mysql.err in the data directory.
> >
> > Not only isn't it there, but trying to add something like
> >
> > err-log (extrapolating from the --err-log I'd used in Unix)
> >
> > in the mysqld area of the my.ini file prevents the server from
launching,
> > so that is clearly either not the correct syntax or not the correct
place
> > for such a line (or both).
> >
> > Next, is there supposed to be a way to start/restart MySQL in Windows
> > other than by going to the Services panel for the general computer? Is
> > this something that can be done from the command line?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > ari
> > suppressed
> >


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