Bug #27889 5.11.5. Server Log Maintenance should mention expire_logs_days
Submitted: 17 Apr 2007 17:40 Modified: 2 May 2007 20:08
Reporter: Baron Schwartz (Basic Quality Contributor)
Status: Closed
Category:Server: Docs Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:Any OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois Target Version:
Tags: replication, binlog
Triage: D4 (Minor)

[17 Apr 2007 17:40] Baron Schwartz 
Description:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/log-file-maintenance.html gives the impression
that you must manually purge binlogs, but the expire_logs_days system variable can do
this for you.  (Perhaps other logs, like the slow query log etc, must be rotated and
purged by external scripts, but at least this one would not have to be).

How to repeat:
Doc bug

Suggested fix:
The paragraph at the end of http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/purge-master-logs.html
is a good explanation.
[17 Apr 2007 18:17] Miguel Solorzano 
Thank you for the bug report.
[2 May 2007 20:08] Paul DuBois 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The
updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the
next release of the relevant products.