Redundant log files in /var/log, Deb pacakges

[Volans]

Installing Percona Server 5.5 from the APT repository, some redundant log files in /var/log are created:

 * /var/log/mysql.err
 * /var/log/mysql.log

while the ones used are in /var/log/mysql/

Moreover the Logrotate script included in the packages search for all those files:

 * /var/log/mysql.log
 * /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
 * /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log

So the unused /var/log/mysql.log is also rotaded on a daily basis, whyle the unused /var/log/mysql.err will not.

I suggest to remove both those file from a fresh installation and remove the /var/log/mysql.log path from the Logrotate script.

[Valerii Kravchuk (valerii-kravchuk)]

Verified with recent 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04.

[Valerii Kravchuk (valerii-kravchuk)]

I do not see any /var/log files in recent 5.6 .deb packages for Ubuntu 13.04:

openxs@ao756:/tmp$ dpkg-deb -c percona-server-server-5.6_5.6.14-rel62.0-483.raring_amd64.deb | grep var
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-10-22 11:31 ./var/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-10-22 11:31 ./var/run/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-10-22 11:31 ./var/run/mysqld/
openxs@ao756:/tmp$ dpkg-deb -c percona-server-server-5.6_5.6.14-rel62.0-483.raring_amd64.deb | grep mysql.err
-rw-r--r-- root/root 504352 2013-10-22 11:00 ./usr/share/mysql/errmsg-utf8.txt
openxs@ao756:/tmp$

I don't see them in recent 5.1 .deb as well:

openxs@ao756:/tmp$ dpkg-deb -c percona-server-server-5.1_5.1.72-rel14.10-597.raring_amd64.deb | grep mysql.err
-rw-r--r-- root/root 416437 2013-10-25 10:45 ./usr/share/mysql/errmsg.txt
openxs@ao756:/tmp$ dpkg-deb -c percona-server-server-5.1_5.1.72-rel14.10-597.raring_amd64.deb | grep /var/log
openxs@ao756:/tmp$ dpkg-deb -c percona-server-server-5.1_5.1.72-rel14.10-597.raring_amd64.deb | grep /var/run
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-10-25 10:44 ./var/run/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-10-25 10:44 ./var/run/mysqld/
openxs@ao756:/tmp$

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-2778