There’re 2 ways to enable mysql query logs

in /etc/my.cnf

log=/var/log/mysqld-query.log

or add ” –log” in start script

/usr/bin/mysqld_safe –datadir=”$datadir” …. –log >/dev/null 2>&1 &

How to stop binary log
remove the following from my.cnf

log-bin=mysql-bin
binlog_format=mixed