Continuing on SLES10
OK, it turns out that I was rather stupid when configuring the my.cnf. As it turned out, the effect I was seeing was due to the presence of two log-bin lines, which looked like the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [mysqld] port = 3306 datadir = /mysql/dbase log = /mysql/logs/dbc-mysql1.log log-error = /mysql/logs/dbc-mysql1.err socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock bind = 172.16.234.31 # custom paths for binary logs log-bin = /mysql/binlogs/dbc-mysql1 log-bin-index = /mysql/binlogs/dbc-mysql1.idx relay-log = /mysql/binlogs/dbc-mysql1.relay And some lines down there was this: ...