MySQL Bugs: #5303: Windows --log-error option doesn't work correctly

Bug #5303	Windows --log-error option doesn't work correctly
Submitted:	30 Aug 2004 21:18	Modified:	2 Nov 2004 17:42
Reporter:	Paul DuBois	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.1	OS:	Windows (WIndows)
Assigned to:	Reggie Burnett	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
On Windows:

When you specify --log-error without an option value, the server
is supposed to use host_name.err in the data directory as the error
log name.  When you specify --log-error=xxx, the server is supposed
to use xxx as the error log name (possibly adding an .err suffix, in
the case that the name includes no suffix.)

What actually happens is that the server does create an error log
named as described in the previous paragraph. However, the only
message that actually goes into the error log is the "InnoDB:
started" message.  All other diagnostic output goes to the file
mysql.err in the data directory.  In other words, the server seems
to believe that it should use the error log behavior that was
standard before MySQL 4.0.10! :-)

How to repeat:
See above.

Thank you for the bug report I was able to repeat on 4.1.3b.
The 4.0.20 behaves as expected.

I have been  unable to reproduce this.  I have an email into Paul to find out more.

It's easy to reproduce. First make sure your data directory
has no *.err files, so you know that the following commands
create any that exist afterward.  Then cd into the bin
directory and start the server like this:

mysqld-opt --log-error=abc

This results in an abc.err file and mysql.err file in the data
directory.

By the way, I just tried it with 4.1.4-gamma (using mysqld)
and the same behavior occurs.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

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