From: Christian <christiand59@web.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:11:09 +0100
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> Hi,
>
> In the bad days of devfsd, no user program could remove /dev/stderr
> (bacause fs didn't allow for that).
>
> But I switched to udev sometime ago.
>
> Today I discovered that my mysqld was happily unlinking it and
> recreating as regular file in /dev (I pass --log=/dev/stderr
> to mysqld).
>
> Can I make /dev/stderr non-unlink-able?
> --
> vda
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You could run mysql as non-privileged user or try something like 
--log=/proc/self/fd/2

-Christian
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