On 07/07/15 09:24, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Since installing Jessie from scratch on this laptop, I'm getting a >> nightly error message from logrotate: >> > >> if [ -z "`$MYADMIN ping 2>/dev/null`" ]; then > > This pings mysql, if there's no response, then the following lines > happen. > >> # Really no mysqld or rather a missing debian-sys-maint user? >> # If this occurs and is not a error please report a bug. >> if ps cax | grep -q mysqld; then >> exit 1 > > This looks likely to be where your error has come from. AIUI, you'll get > to this line if mysqladmin CAN'T ping your server AND there is a mysqld > process. There are a number of reasons for this, but I suspect the main > one is a mis-configured /etc/mysql/debian.cnf > >> fi >> else >> $MYADMIN flush-logs >> fi >> endscript >> } >>
Thanks for your help, Darac. Your comments helped me get to the bottom of this. Although I installed Jessie (with Mariadb) from scratch, I retained my old SQL tables (of course), including the mysql passwords. This meant that the (new) debian-sys-maint password in debian.cnf did not match the password in the database. I corrected the password in debian.cnf, and all seems well now. Thanks again, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/559bba0c.6060...@vanderhoff.org
