The first way involves setting "global general_log_file", which requires SUPER, which is frankly worse having FILE. The second way ALSO involves "global genera

The first way involves setting "global general_log_file", which requires SUPER, which is frankly worse having FILE. The second way ALSO involves "global general_log_file", but is incomplete because "One problem will remain however. MySQL will refuse files that do not start with a valid [section] header with the message:" It's stated that there is a workaround, but this still requires SUPER. So yeah, you may not need FILE, you just need SUPER instead, but if you are running a webapp with a mysql user that has SUPER, you are still doing it all wrong...