[debian-mysql] Bug#781945: Bug#781945: mariadb-server-10.0: mysqld_safe Can't log to error log and syslog at the same time.

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2015-04-05 13:56 GMT+03:00 Cyril B. <cbay at excellency.fr>:
> Package: mariadb-server-10.0
> Version: 10.0.16-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Installing mariadb-server-10.0 on a fresh install of Jessie shows this in the
> (syslog) logs:
>
> /etc/init.d/mysql[3893]: 150405 12:38:36 mysqld_safe Can't log to error log and syslog at the same time.  Remove all --log-error configur
> ation options for --syslog to take effect.
>
> Indeed, MariaDB logs go to /var/log/mysql/error.log rather than syslog.
>
> I couldn't find any way to disable log_error without commenting that line
> in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. In particular, adding 'disable_log_error' in
> /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf didn't have any effect.

I can see this warning too, but I am not quite sure what to do about it.

The my.cnf that is inherited from the mysql-common 5.5 package defines
'log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log'
The conf.d/mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf also inherited from old MySQL
packaging has the line 'syslog'.