MySQL Replication Log Files 1

[nychris]

First off, I don't know anything about MySQL. I have a MySQL 4.1 running on a SLES server (SuSE), and the DBA has left the company. The mysql/var directory is filled with large MySQL Replication logs from the past two months. Its filling up the 64GB filesystem, using 60G of the space. How can I clean this up? Can I just delete the old log files, or will that break something? I don't believe any replication is even happening with another server so I'm not sure why this is even turned on.

Thanks

 

[TonyGroves]

You would need to edit my.cnf (probably /etc/mysql/my.cnf) to remove the replication and logging settings, then restart the server. Then you can safely remove any log files.

 

[nychris]

thanks Tony

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