MYSQL :: Server Log Not Logging All Queries

Logging Queries On MYSQL
I am running Red Hat and MySQL, I am needing to make it that mysql logs all
queries done on the server, at the moment my /etc/my.cnf file looks like
this.

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysql]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

What do I need to do to accompish this , I have looked on google and just
cant find the answer at all to this.

Logging Queries On Mysql With FreeBSD
I am trying to set up my mySQL server on FreeBSD to log every query a
user runs. I understand I must edit the my.cnf file. But one does not
exist for my install. I installed mySQL from the FreeBSD packages and
for some reason, it did not create a my.cnf file in /etc or anywhere.
Where can I set it up to log every query a user runs?

Logging Into Server
I have a linux box with MySQL.

The following fails. If I try to login locally using

mysql -u USERNAME -p

If I go to another computer on the network and try using the same user
name and password by:

mysql -h SERVER ADDRESS -u USERNAME -p

This login is successful.

Does anyone know why the first operation fails?

Logging Into Server
I am running Mac OS X 10.4 (PPC) I have installed MySQL server and have the use account mysql but I have no idea of the password. When the install ran it did not give me the opportunity to set a password and I can not find anywhere that states a default password.

Switch Query Logging While The Server Is Running
It would be nice if general query logging could be switched on and off while the MySQL server is running, and not only at startup time. While debugging an application that uses foreign database access libraries, this would be very helpful. One could switch on logging, perform an activity, switch off logging, and look what has happened.

Otherwise, the server has to be restarted to change logging, which is a bit annoying...

How Do I Start Logging On Windows Live MySQL Server?
As I understand it, the server has to be shut down for the logging to be successfully started. Is this correct?

I have been experimenting on a local MySQL server to make sure I know what to do on the production server. My production server has a my.ini file at the location c:Program FilesMySQLMySQL Server 4.1my.ini with various config stuff in it. Would it be ok for me to add the following under the [mysqld] part of the file:

log=/logs/mysqld.log

Thus creating a file named 'mysqld.log' in the folder 'logs'.
The main things I need to log are the SQL Statements being executed and the IP Addresses/hostname of the connections. What type of log would be best for this? Also how do I make it so that the log doesn't grow ridiculously large?

Complex Queries Versus Multiple Simple Queries
I am constructing a database to contain information about stories posted on my site. Information included will be things like title, author(s), genre(s), story codes, synopsis, etc.

I worked out that storing this information properly, so that it can all be searched on, could take as many as ten tables.

My question is this: Is a single complex query really better (more efficient for the server) than multiple simple queries? In other words, I may need the information for as many as 25 or even 50 stories for a single page.

Is it better to get all of the information out of a single, massive, complex query, or is it acceptable to get the information essentially one story at a time, which could mean 25 or 50 simple queries...?

Many Smaller Queries Vs. Large Comlicated Queries
I am wondering if any one can help me. I have a page that will run around 85 smaller queries but if i combine the queries it will go down by almost half. This page is a high traffic page and I don't a complicated query taking up mysql resources while it created a temp table and such. My question is this:

Is it better for mysql to run a lot of smaller queries (ex: simple selects with zero or one join, group by) or one larger complicated query with everything combined.

The thing i have to keep in mind is that the mysql selects are comming off the localhost that the web server is also running on so they share the same resources.

Logging In
I'm having trouble logging into my sql server, I'm running version 4.0 just about anything I type in gives me this error message

"Error
SQL query:

mysql

MySQL said:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'mysql' at line 1 "

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Logging
Is there a way to turn on some sort of logging? I am attempting to connect to a db through VB, just learned it and am not sure if I am getting in and not retrieving data or not even getting in yet. Can this be done through the console and then left on?

How Do I Set Query Logging
I have a situation where my database is deleting records.

I would like to enable logging but this produces a huge text file. Also I am not sure how to read the results.

I am using MySQL 3.23 (the IT department won't upgrade).

Can anyone tell me the most efficient way to set logging for a specific database? I just need to monitor whether a process is deleting these records.

Also how would I read this information?

Are there any known problems like this with MySQL 3.23?

IIS Logging To Mysql?
Can you setup mysql ODBC so that IIS can log into mysql? if so is there any good article/ instructions on the setup?

Query Logging?
I cannot get my query logging to work.

I put

log=hostname.log

in my.ini and at some point it WAS recording a log, but it since stopped. I started the service, stopped the service, did everything. I logged into my machine as admin, as the user, did it all again... cant get it to work.

I am running mysql 5 as part of the XAMPP stack. I installed it on this machine as admin and can run it as a service, but I cant get the log to work.

Any help would be appreciated. I really need to see what SQL is being executed.

MySQL 5 Logging
I've installed MySQL Server 5.0 on Win2K IIS as well as PHP 5.0. PHP works fine, and so does MySQL...the problem is that I can't get the two to talk to each other

Logging On For The First Time
I've downloaded the XP Windows standard version, installed it and logged on without a problem.

I've also downloaded the Linux standard version, installed it(Mandriva 2000 powerpack), and attempted to log on. However, I keep getting a message telling me that it can't find a socks in /var(whatever that is).

Logging In To Monitor Thru Dos
I am playing around with logging in and running commands through batch files on a win2000 machine running mysql, I have a password on my db, I am using mysql -h localhost -u root -p
to start up the monitor this works, but it asks for a password which kind of kills the automated part of what I am wanting to do, is there a way to include the password on this command? I thought about passing the password using %1, but I haven't done dos in so long that I dont even know if this feature still works, does anybody?

Logging Problem
I have a problem with mysql general log, regarding query logging. I'm
running Win2K, mysql 4.1.10 with JBoss 4.0.2. When I turn on logging,
the statements executed from JBoss and logged by mysql look like this:

SELECT uuid from tablex AS a WHERE a.id = ?;

MySQL never logs the parameters of the statements. Can somebody tell me
how to turn this on or what I am missing here?

How Do I Enable Logging?
I need to enable MySQL logging. I looked in the my.ini file and did not see any logging options. Where do I turn on logging? I am using Windows.

Logging With Trigger
I am designing a chatsystem with logging-functionality. And i want to handle the logging-stuff within a trigger. As a procedure the code works, so the syntax in ok. As a trigger i get no errors but nothing is logged.

create trigger messages_insert
before insert on messages
for each row
begin
declare a tinyint(1) unsigned;
select logging into a from users where id = 1;
if a = 1 then
insert into logfile set content = 'A';
end if;
end

Logging In / Cookies
I've been writing some code for site I'm creating, and I got stumped this far in. I have my login code, and it works, sorta - the page that displays right after logging in says that I'm logged in, but the I guess the session is destroyed after that.

I'm sort of fighting blindly here - I just started learning PHP a few months ago and don't know much about sessions and cookies yet. Here's the code that processes the login form; I originally borrowed it from an open-source browser-based RPG (which is why users are referred to as 'players'), but now only about lines 7-17 are the same. Also, it worked fine for that game, so I don't know what's wrong here. Code:

Logging Doesn't Work
I have WinXP, and MySQL 5.0.18 running as a service. I followed the instructions for
setting up general query log file (mysqld --log), and the file was created (Nebo.log),
but it does not display any logs.
This is all I have after executing a few queries:

Nebo.log

mysqld, Version: 5.0.18-log. started with:
Tcp port: 3306 Unix socket: (null)
Time Id Command Argument

Can anyone offer any help?

Using A Database For Logging
I need to log the number of "brochure Requests" on a per Region, Per
date basis.

eg for say 20 Regions , have a 366 columns (one per day of the year).
Obviously I can write a script to Create all the tables, but it seems
kind of clumsy.
Do arrays exist in Mysql?
It might also be easier to organise it into 52 weeks of 7 days.

How do I design the tables?

Stats Not Logging
My stats arnt being logged. Page loads with no errors..

$update = "UPDATE `log` SET hits='hits + 1' WHERE ip='$ip' AND date='$date'";
if (mysql_query($update) or die(mysql_error()) ) {
} elseif($logged[username]) {
mysql_query("INSERT into log (ip, hits, date, user) VALUES ('$ip', '1', '$date', '$logged[username]'" or die(mysql_error()) );
}
else{
mysql_query("INSERT into log (ip, hits, date, user) VALUES ('$ip', '1', '$date', '$user'" or die(mysql_error()) );
}?

Transaction Logging
I am reading up on transaction logging, and am wondering whether MySQL's binary log is its "UNDO/REDO log"? I'm a beginner to all this, and not sure whether that's the correct interpretation of the MySQL binary log.

How does MySQL's transaction logging, or any transaction logging mechanism, work? I was reading up on general transaction logging principles but it was getting far too specific to SQL Server and other DBMSs, so I figured that I could come here and someone here might point me to some MySQL-specific resources on this, or perhaps help to explain how this all works.

e.g. Does the transaction log get rid of all transactions once committed, what's the difference in how UNDO and REDO logs work, are these logs stored in a more complex manner than just logging the plain text statement (I'd imagine so, because otherwise how would an undo operation work)?

In fact, I find it funny that I'm asking all the questions above because I'm still not quite clear on what the purpose of transaction logs is in the first place!

While it would be great if somebody could help clear up the confusion I'm having, it would also be good if you could point me to some MySQL-specific resources on this topic. I browsed through the MySQL documentation and did a web search, but either did not find any resources period, or did not find resources that "dumbed it down" enough for me.

Logging Parameters
I can't see any useful-looking log files in my current localhost MySQL setup, and I can't see a way to specify logging in the Server Instance Configuration Wizard (1.0.8) either.

There are plenty of logging parameters listed in mysqld --help --verbose, but I'm not sure why I need to run that when I already have the service set up by the Wizard, which is working fine apart from logging. If I have to do it the mysqld way, how can I shut off the service, and is that a good idea anyway?

Replication Logging
Im wondering if there is some method to automatically "clean up" the binary logs left by replication even after they are used. For example, I have a number of mysql replication logs sitting on a server. There are about 25 of them, a GIG in size each.

My MYSQL replication is UP TO DATE. This means everything is properly sync'd. But I dont want to just 'DELETE' everything.

Logging On And Off MySQL
How does MySQL manage connections/sessions that are not formally and
properly closed?

What are the possible negative consequences if many of the
software/operators on the client side fail to properly close the sessions
they open? Will the MySQL server be able to handle this gracefully? Or will
they consume server resources until the system crashes?

Will the open sessions eventually time out close automatically?
Is there a timeout value that can be set on the server?

Can one query the server for information about open connections?

MySQL Logging Out
I'm not sure if this is related to MySQL or just happens to be occuring with MySQL on the Linux box, but MySQL will -- at random intervals -- log out without my explicit action and be followed by this message

[X]+ Stopped mysql -u <user> -p <database>
(where X is a number)

Now I don't have admin or root access to this server, but is there anything I can do or talk about with the administrator?

Error Logging
I'd like to be able to capture errors and write them to an error log table from the stored procedure. This is fairly simple in MS SQL ... I haven't found much information about how to do it in MySQL. Has anyone else run into this?

Turning On Logging
I have a database that has various information submitted to it from the internet. I am having problems with people hacking/submitting info that shouldn't be submitted. I don't know how they are doing it but I though that if I turned on the Logging for that particular DB maybe it would give me some clues i.e. IP addresses, ISP, date/time info, SQL Statement executed etc.What form of logging would I need to turn on?

Logging On To MySQL - Problem
I'm trying to log on to MySQL for the first time. I only installed MySQL and PHP for the first time yesterday.

When I click on the mysql.exe (in C:Program FilesMySQLMySQL Server 5.0in) nothing happens.

I thought I was meant to get a command prompt to type in my username and pw. The following actually happens to me: I double click on it, the command box opens for about 2 seconds and then closes down.

Statistics Logging, Too Big Of A Table?
If you are logging hits/statistics in a table by each page view this logging/statistics table will grow very large.

Logging Record Deletions
I want to create a script to monitor when deletions are taking place from my database.

I thought something like using SQL count to check the number of records every minute so I can log when authorised deletions are occuring.

Mysql Logging Compiled In?
i'm trying to turn on mysql logging as follows, but it doesn't seem to
work: mysqld --log=/root/log

the logfile never shows up after a connection or query. so i want to
know if logging support is compiled into mysql. i did not install it
and i cannot ask the hoster. does anyone know how to check that? i
don't even know where to begin.

Mysql Logging Compiled In?
i'm trying to turn on mysql logging as follows, but it doesn't seem to work:

mysqld --log=/root/log

the logfile never shows up after a connection or query. so i want to
know if logging support is compiled into mysql. i did not install it
and i cannot ask the hoster. does anyone know how to check that? i
don't even know where to begin.

User Command Logging?
Is there a way to log what selects, inserts, updates, deletes various users do along with a timestamp of when? Something like a shell history of what the last 50 or so commands are that they ran.

MySql Change Logging
Is it possible for me to have the daily updation and insert queries
performed on the MySQL DB saved? This will help me track when a
particular record was modified in the DB.

Is there any other way to track as to when the changes were made to the
DB? I also want to add who made the changes but this will come at a
later stage once the user login is implemented.

Logging On From Network Workstation
Having trouble logging on to the server from a workstaion on the network. Have added myself as a global user and the workstation as a host. MySql is listening on port 3306 but I can't make a connection. I get

[bob@Comp1 bob]$ mysql -h 192.168.0.2 -u bob -p
Enter password:

ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'bob@Comp1.home.wtaustralia.com' (Using password: YES)

I am using Mandrake10.0 and Mysql 4.0.18 I can connect using ssh but not as a remote user.

Temporarily Switch Off Logging
I am running MySQL v3.23.52-log on SuSI v8.0 platform.

log_bin is set ON.

How can I temporarily switch off logging?

How Do I Enable Binary Logging
I would like to enable binary logging on my database.Am using winXP The information i have talks of adding some lines to my.cnf file then restarting mysql.

Logging MySql Statements
My server load goes up to 100 and I don´t know why. What I know, if I
shot down the site, the server calms down and it works again.

I have figured out that i have a mysql problem but I can t figure it
out.

Is it possible to log all MySql Statements which are running on my
database ? If the server goes strange again I could check the log file
for the problem.

Logging Using The Mysql Command
Unfortunately, I was experimenting and I changed the field Host in table User from localhost to %. Now I can no longer logon via the mysql -u root command. It wants to log on as root@localhost and I want to log on as root@%. How do I fix my mistake?

Can't Limit /var/log/mysql Logging
Mysql is filling my /var partition because the log limit doesn't seem
to be respected.

I've tried many different settings in /etc/mysql/my.cnf but nothing
works.

Logrotate is not enabled/configured. I just want mysql to use a maximum
of, let's say, 1GB of my /var partition

The log is /var/log/mysql/
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
kernel 2.4.27-2-386
mysql version 5.0.30-Debian_1-log

Following the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file Code:

MySQL Logging And Encryption
If logging is turned on, is there a way to disable it for a given query?

IE. If I query --> select AES_ENCRYPT("This is very important data",
"lessthansecretkey");

Then my key and the value I'm trying to encrypt is visible in the log
files.

Starting Binary Logging
I want to start binary logging, but can't seem to get it working!
I have put:

[mysqld]
log-bin

into my.cnf which MySQL appears to be using.I can't see anything else in the manual or internet which mentions anything else I required to do - am I just missing something?I am using clean installs of Win2003 and MySQL 5.0.18. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am totally stuck until I can sort this out.

Enable Mysql Logging
how common it is for production websites (sites that get used frequently) such as small online stores etc, to enable logging on the database end. Is it that common ? Seems like it might be a performance hit and maybe it might be a good idea only if one suspected something wasnt right (cyber attacks). Any php / mysql errors will be hopefully caught and logged by other means, so the only reason i see to log database action is for seeing just who is trying to get access.

Disable MySQL Logging
I was a bit surprised, when I saw that mySQL create a huge logs, entierly useless for my testing server purpose and since the machine is relatively (a lot, VIA C is nowhere near fast) slow, I looking for ways how to completely disable these unnecessary logging
It is a Win2k server with mySQL 4.1.15-nt :-)

PS. how to convince the service to use as default latin2 coding?
--default-character-set=latin2_czech_ci
Is mentioned into the guide, but the server did not accept it at all in properties and trying to set it into the ini file was undocumented and sometimes cause mySQL not to start + it still not working and use the damn utf8 crap, that kill the czech characters :(((

Mysql Logging Compiled In
i'm trying to turn on mysql logging as follows, but it doesn't seem to
work:

mysqld --log=/root/log

the logfile never shows up after a connection or query. so i want to
know if logging support is compiled into mysql. i did not install it
and i cannot ask the hoster. does anyone know how to check that? i
don't even know where to begin.