System logs
If mysqld_safe
is invoked with the --syslog
option, the errors are also logged in the system log (syslog). This feature works only if the system has the logger program, which is usually present on Linux systems, and in such cases, the
daemon facility is used. By default, each syslog entry has a mysqld
or mysqld_safe
tag, depending on the program that generated its entry. If multiple instances of MariaDB (or MySQL) are running on the same system, it is advisable to add a different suffix for each instance to find out which particular instance logged a particular error. To do this, you can start mysqld_safe
with the --syslog-tag
option, as shown in the following example:
mysqld_safe --syslog --syslog-tag=serv1
In this case, the errors ...
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