Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

[Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:35:57PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
 
> Mysql people are strange. For example, their daemon does not want to die
> on SIGTERM, this makes it harder to run it under daemontools.

Well, daemontools are equally strange ;-))

> Also it drops privileges BEFORE it opens logfiles (--log=xxx).
> I cannot get it to log stuff on stderr:
> 
> echo "* Starting mysqld"
> env - \
> setuidgid root \
> mysqld \
>     --defaults-file="$PWD/my.cnf" \
>     --user="$user" \
>     --datadir="$var/data" \
>     --tmpdir="$var/tmp" \
>     --socket="$PWD/mysql.socket" \
>     --pid-file="$PWD/mysql.pid" \
>     --skip-name-resolve \
>     --skip-innodb \
>     --skip-ndbcluster \
>     --skip-networking \
>     --log=/proc/self/fd/2 \
>     --log-slow-queries=/proc/self/fd/2 \
> 
> Those last two options don't work:
> 
> mysqld: File '/proc/self/fd/2' not found (Errcode: 13)

any good daemon closes stdout, stderr, stdin and does chdir(/) on startup.
msqld might do so as well.
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