mysqld was started and stopped and also any critical errors that occur while the server is running.
mysqld notices a table that needs to be automatically checked or repaired, it writes a message to the error log.
mysqld stores the error log file with the --log-error[=name] option.
name value is given, mysqld uses the hostname followed by .err and writes the file in the data directory.
mysqld_safe is used to start mysqld and mysqld dies unexpectedly, mysqld_safe restarts mysqld and writes a restarted mysqld message to the error log.
What does the general query log contain?
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