Bug #52445 Need to display error log
Submitted: 29 Mar 2010 15:45 Modified: 29 Nov 2011 14:23
Reporter: Mario Beck Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: Administration Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.2.16 Rev 5249 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: Administration, error log

[29 Mar 2010 15:45] Mario Beck
Description:
There is no way, a user can look at the error log file of a server.
This is standard admin procedure to find problems. So it must be supported by the workbench.
(Same is true for slow log and general log, if output is set to FILE)
It would be enough if displaying the logs would only work with local instances.
This is true for config file editor and starting / stopping the server as well.
But it is necessary to provide full feature GUI administration.

How to repeat:
Connect to a server and look at "Logs" tab in configuration.

Suggested fix:
When setting up a connection, save the log_error variable and display the file accordingly.
[30 Mar 2010 3:28] Valeriy Kravchuk
Thank you for the feature request.
[29 Nov 2011 14:23] Philip Olson
Fixed as of 5.2.36:

+        New entries to the error log are now shown when restarting the
+        MySQL server.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        When <literal>log_output</literal> is set to
+        <literal>FILE</literal>, the log files are now displayed in the
+        &workbench; log page.