MySQL binlog not logging

Question

Have added the directive in my.cnf

log-bin

Both the binlog and index files are created, but seems the binlog file remain unchanged even I massively insert data into the db.

Answer 1

One possibility might be that if you are inserting into a transactional table but have not committed the data yet with a COMMIT statement all those inserts would be cached.

Answer 2

This may be a wild guess, but it sounds like this is either a secondary master or slave host? Add the following line to your my.cnf and restart mysqld:

log-slave-updates