Question

I need to log SQL to a file so i can check later which SQL run.

so i opened opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf and add these lines

log_slow_queries  
log_queries_not_using_indexes =1  
long_query_time = 1  
slow_query_log = 1  
slow_query_log_file = "/opt/lampp/logs/query.log"

but it did not logged the queries it even did not created the query.log file, so i created an empty file with the name, but still it’s not working.

Edit

[mysqld]
log_slow_queries
log_queries_not_using_indexes =1
long_query_time = 1
slow_query_log = 1
general_log = 1
slow_query_log_file = /opt/lampp/logs/query.log
general_log_file = "/opt/lampp/logs/query.log"

Answer 1

This will only log slow queries. You need the general log if you want to see all queries.

general_log = 1
general_log_file = "/opt/lampp/logs/query.log"

Note that you’ll need to restart the server for this to take effect. Also, you should only use this type of logging during testing as it does cause slowdown.

As other users mentioned, this could be a permissions issue. First, check what user MySQL is running as via ps -u -p $(pgrep mysql). The username will be displayed on the first column under USER. In your case, it seems the user is nobody. You can view the default group of a user via groups nobody. This should print something like nobody : nogroup.

To fix the permissions on the file, just run chown nobody:nogroup /opt/lampp/logs/query.log.