Unable to flush logs from mysql
Posted by: Mark Leci
Date: December 15, 2015 02:46PM

I have noticed that my local.err file is growing large. I have a script (Cron PHP) set up to flush the log every month, and the script is running but not flushing the log. If I connect to the database (through Sequel Pro) and run 'FLUSH ERROR LOGS' the command executes successfully but nothing happens to the logs. If I try to run mysqladmin flush-logs from the command line, I get the following error

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!

the tmp/mysql.sock file does not exist, but I am a bit reluctant to mess about with these things as it took me a long time to get MYSQL working in the first place. I have only one my.cnf file, and the socket listed is socket=/var/mysql/mysql.sock

I am able to flush the logs by stopping mysqld and deleting the log file, but I would rather be able to do this via script. Please give me some direction in how best to do this (and ideally why I can't use mysqladmin but everything else seems to be working).

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