From c8368995363950374601e54e34be8e88b51ee86b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Schwarz <schwarz@b5c.eu>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:50:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make error logging configurable

---
 README.md           | 5 +++++
 defaults/main.yml   | 4 ++++
 templates/my.cnf.j2 | 8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 392569f..212ab71 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ The MySQL users and their privileges. A user has the values `name`, `host` (defa
 
 Default MySQL connection configuration.
 
+    mysql_log_error: /var/log/mysqld.log
+    mysql_syslog_tag: mysqld
+
+MySQL logging configuration. Setting `mysql_log_error` to `syslog` will make MySQL log to syslog using the `mysql_syslog_tag`.
+
     mysql_key_buffer_size: "256M"
     mysql_max_allowed_packet: "1M"
     mysql_table_open_cache: "256"
diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 7f20304..d8a19e6 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ mysql_innodb_lock_wait_timeout: 50
 # mysqldump settings
 mysql_mysqldump_max_allowed_packet: "64M"
 
+# mysqld_safe setting
+mysql_log_error: /var/log/mysqld.log
+mysql_syslog_tag: mysqld
+
 # databases and users settings
 mysql_databases: []
 mysql_users: []
diff --git a/templates/my.cnf.j2 b/templates/my.cnf.j2
index 13c387d..245cbc5 100644
--- a/templates/my.cnf.j2
+++ b/templates/my.cnf.j2
@@ -52,5 +52,11 @@ quick
 max_allowed_packet = {{ mysql_mysqldump_max_allowed_packet }}
 
 [mysqld_safe]
-log-error = /var/log/mysqld.log
+{% if mysql_log_error == 'syslog' %}
+syslog
+syslog-tag = {{ mysql_syslog_tag }}
+{% else %}
+skip-syslog
+log-error = {{ mysql_log_error }}
+{% endif %}
 pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid