Bug #6035 --tmpdir option for mysqld doesn't work or in my.cnf
Submitted: 11 Oct 2004 19:10 Modified: 6 Jan 2005 20:53
Reporter: Mark nielsen Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1.5.-gamma OS:Linux (Linux)
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any

[11 Oct 2004 19:10] Mark nielsen 
Description:
When I specify --tmpdir or tmpdir in my.cnf, the binary logs still get stored in /tmp instead of the tmp directory specified. However, when  I use -t, it works fine. This appears in 4.1.5-gamma.

How to repeat:
Just try using the tmpdir option, stop and restart the server, perform a couple
of actions use mysqlimport, then use mysqlbinlog to examine where it creates
the temporary tables. 

Suggested fix:
-t works fine. Just make sure the tmpdir by command line or in my.cnf does whatever -t does.
[11 Oct 2004 19:12] Mark nielsen 
Actually, the -t option doesn't work.
[11 Oct 2004 21:09] MySQL Verification Team 
Hi,

Thank you for the report, but this is not a bug. Binary log files are stored in the MySQL datadir unless you specify path with --log-bin option.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Binary_log.html
[13 Oct 2004 2:20] Mark nielsen 
I mistated the problem. 
It is not the binary logs, but when you do a mysqlimport, the binary logs has entries of the mysqlimport pointing to files in the /tmp directory. It is not the binary logs that get stored in /tmp but the files that the binary logs create in regards to a mysqlimport. 

Sorry.
[15 Oct 2004 3:34] Matthew Lord 
I'm not sure what you are referring to with the -t option.  For mysqlbinlog this means that you 
want to see any later binlogs after the one you specify.

Are you referring to the files created on a slave when doing load data infile and mysqlimport?
[6 Dec 2004 20:53] Mark nielsen 
The -t option was referring to temporary directories. 
Let me test if I am having the same problem with the latest version of MySQL 4.1.7. I remember I had some problems with the master database server
putting files into /tmp rather than the temporary directory I specified. 
I will check this tonight or tommorrow.
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