[CentOS] CentOS 8.2: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log

Am 05.12.20 um 15:35 schrieb Alexander Farber:
> Hello fellow CentOS users!
> 
> I have installed CentOS 8.2.2004 with the following packages:
> 
> mysql-common-8.0.21-1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36.x86_64
> mysql-8.0.21-1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36.x86_64
> mysql-errmsg-8.0.21-1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36.x86_64
> mysql-server-8.0.21-1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36.x86_64
> 
> Then I have run mysql_secure_installation and among other things set the
> root password for MySQL
> 
> As result I am greeted with the following anachron mail every morning:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> 
>   mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'
> error: error running non-shared postrotate script for
> /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log of '/var/log/mysql/mysqld.log '
> 
> I understand that the reason is me having set the root password for MySQL.
> 
> But my question is how to provide the password to postrotate without
> disclosing it too much?
> 
> Other than that the MySQL works well, I use it to host 3 Wordpress websites
> at my CentOS 8 Linux server (haproxy -> Jetty x 3 -> FastCGI -> php-fpm ->
> Wordpress -> MySQL)
> 
> Greetings from Germany
> Alex

Hallo Alex,

take a look into /etc/logrotate.d/mysqld

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Leon