From 2fbe625ee816c0d425656dbdc1d0a14850fd23de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "lenz@mysql.com" <>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:35:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] - small improvement for the logrotate config file (patch
 found in the SUSE   source RPM): use "mysqladmin ping" instead of grepping
 the process list   for the mysqld binary (should be more portable than
 relying on the "ps"   options

---
 support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh b/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
index a1153c66f40..0ee78b0f7ca 100644
--- a/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
+++ b/support-files/mysql-log-rotate.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-# This logname is set in mysql.server.sh that ends up in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
+# This logname can be set in /etc/my.cnf
+# by setting the variable "err-log"
+# in the [safe_mysqld] section as follows:
+#
+# [safe_mysqld]
+# err-log=@localstatedir@/mysqld.log
 #
 # If the root user has a password you have to create a
 # /root/.my.cnf configuration file with the following
@@ -22,8 +27,10 @@
         compress
     postrotate
 	# just if mysqld is really running
-	if test -n "`ps acx|grep mysqld`"; then
-	        @bindir@/mysqladmin flush-logs
+	if test -x @bindir@/mysqladmin && \
+	   @bindir@/mysqladmin ping &>/dev/null
+	then
+	   @bindir@/mysqladmin flush-logs
 	fi
     endscript
 }