Question

i have a mac with snow leopard and i have sequel pro and im trying to figure out how i can view all the queries that are being done on my web site so that i can track down the problem. how can i do this? on sequel pro there is a console that i can click on and all it shows me are the selects being done so when i do a delete it doesnt show that. would this information be somewhere?

Answer 1

Open /etc/my.cnf or create it if it does not already exist. Add or uncomment the line log=/var/log/mysqld.log in the [mysqld] section.

Create the logfile with sudo touch /var/log/mysqld.log and make it writeable for the mysql user with sudo chown _mysqld /var/log/mysqld.log. Note that you’ll may have to replace _mysql!

Now restart MySQL and view the log with tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log or in console app.