You are correct on both accounts. I am now informing myself about ‘journalctl’. Writing the logs to the datadir also worked. Thank you for your help. From: Guillaume Lefranc [mailto:guillaume.lefranc@mariadb.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 2:28 PM To: Chris Adams <ChrisAdams@oslmail.osl.state.or.us>; maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Maria-discuss] question about generating logs on MariaDB 10.1.21 Hi Chris, In CentOS 7, error logs are handled by systemd. Use the "journalctl -u mariadb.service" command to view them. I have no idea what's wrong with the general logs though. Maybe that's some permission issue. Please check that the mysql user can write in /var/log/mysql. You might have success by changing the log path to your datadir, e.g. to /mnt/mysqldbs/mysql.log, since mysqld can always write in its own datadir. Regards GL On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:04 PM Chris Adams <chris.a.adams@state.or.us<mailto:chris.a.adams@state.or.us>> wrote: Hello, I have just moved from a MySQL 5.6 server on CentOS 6.8 to a MariaDB 10.1.21 server on CentOS 7. It is installed and working. I would like to set up some logging, but it has not gone as expected. I have binary logging working. However, I can’t generate general logs or error logs. Here is part of the /etc/my.cnf file: user=mysql port = 3306 socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock datadir = /mnt/mysqldbs log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log general_log_file = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log general_log = 1 log_bin = /mnt/mysqldbs/logs/mysql-bin I assume that after a restart, the logs will be generated, then logged to as events happen. As it is, no log files are generated. Many thanks. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Guillaume Lefranc Remote DBA Services Manager MariaDB Corporation