# Is this safe to log log-bin on /var/log

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-safe-to-log-log-bin-on-var-log/6305
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-safe-to-log-log-bin-on-var-log/6305 "2018-04-18T09:30:01Z")
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### Author: ![sharonsreedh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@sharonsreedh](https://forums.percona.com/u/sharonsreedh)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-this-safe-to-log-log-bin-on-var-log/6305/1 "2018-04-18T09:30:01Z")

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Hi There,  
I am planing to log bin-log on /var/log/ apart from data dir on my production server. Please tell is this safe to do so?

Regards  
sharon