CentOS 5.6, MySQL 5.1.52 Test VM with fresh install of MySQL SElinux permissive I did was started the server and set the root password [root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mysql # Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks symbolic-links=0 [mysqld_safe] log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid # Setup for DB replication log-bin=mysql-bin [root@rhel6 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld restart --log-bin Stopping mysqld: [ OK ] Starting mysqld: [ OK ] [root@rhel6 ~]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 Server version: 5.1.52 Source distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> show binary logs; ERROR 1381 (HY000): You are not using binary logging [root@rhel6 ~]# updatedb [root@rhel6 ~]# locate mysql-bin So my question is: Is binary logging enabled as default? How do I enable binary logging? Thanks in advance
I turns out that log-bin needs to be in the [mysql] section so now I got binary logs so I can set up a slave and replicate. Cheers
