How to find out where or if MYSQL5 logs are stored on a machine WHM/Cpanel

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Published on 2009-11-12T23:52:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 4:03 UTC
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  • I have a WHM/Cpanel re-seller hosting account on a virtual private server (Linux).
  • I have root access to the machine via SSH


I am trying to locate a file that contains information that will help me to determine which users have accessed what db and from which hosts.

I would imagine this kind of data is stored in a log file somewhere.

The MySQL page says:

The general query log - Established client connections and statements received from clients

See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-logs.html

It also says:

By default, all log files are created in the mysqld data directory.

So, I am am NOT asking where are the general query log logs stored, (cos I expect I will get answers saying "it depends")

Please help me work out:

"How can go about finding out where MySQL general query log logs are stored on a linux machine"

Couple of things i've already tried:

I looked at

 /etc/my.cnf

it was a tiny file that only contained the following info:

[mysqld]
skip-bdb
skip-innodb
set-variable = max_connections=500
safe-show-database
~
~

I have looked in:

/var/lib/mysql/

But I could not see any log-like file names in that directory.

Any clues on this would be most welcome.

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