MySQL Logs Do Not Get Rotated by logrotate Cron Job

(Doc ID 2112039.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2017

Applies to:

MySQL Server - Version 5.0 and later
Linux x86
Linux x86-64

Goal

How to set login credentials from a hidden config file when running mysqladmin from cron'ed logrotate script.
 

Solution

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