Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

Christian
2006-03-14T13:11:27Z

> Hi,
>
> In the bad days of devfsd, no user program could remove /dev/stderr
> (bacause fs didn't allow for that).
>
> But I switched to udev sometime ago.
>
> Today I discovered that my mysqld was happily unlinking it and
> recreating as regular file in /dev (I pass --log=/dev/stderr
> to mysqld).
>
> Can I make /dev/stderr non-unlink-able?
> --
> vda
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You could run mysql as non-privileged user or try something like
--log=/proc/self/fd/2

-Christian