[debian-mysql] Bug#383543: mysql-server: logrotate script fails if mysqld is not running

[Bram Schoenmakers]

Apologies for bringing this up after such a long time, but it seems
that this bug is present without 3rd party packages involved. The
Akonadi daemon, part of KDE 4, launches its own instance and affects
the output of ps cax | grep mysqld :

  /usr/sbin/mysqld
--defaults-file=/home/bram/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf
--datadir=/home/bram/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/socket=/home/bram/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket

To fix this in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server, I check for the
existence of the socket on its main location:

  if ps cax | grep -q mysqld; then

becomes

  if [ -S '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' ]; then

But I wonder if this solution applies in general, but at least it
supports Debian's default settings.

-- 
Bram Schoenmakers