diff --git a/mysql/.md5sum b/mysql/.md5sum
index 2edbc4186..b73d8045f 100644
--- a/mysql/.md5sum
+++ b/mysql/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-450f1f7a545b2e3ccd43e44651940ed4  my.cnf
-55a398daeb69a778fc46573623143268  mysql-5.1.39.tar.gz
+907c4ac28c33b2508750bca8a29ef9b9  my.cnf
+32e7373c16271606007374396e6742ad  mysql-5.1.40.tar.gz
 642a596f13ebd7e459c5ff2fd382f06b  mysqld
diff --git a/mysql/Pkgfile b/mysql/Pkgfile
index 68a97fc9a..beaffe39a 100644
--- a/mysql/Pkgfile
+++ b/mysql/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  ncurses readline zlib
 
 name=mysql
-version=5.1.39
+version=5.1.40
 release=1
 source=(http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/$name-$version.tar.gz \
         my.cnf mysqld)
diff --git a/mysql/my.cnf b/mysql/my.cnf
index 8133283a2..35da39472 100644
--- a/mysql/my.cnf
+++ b/mysql/my.cnf
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
 #
 
 [mysqld]
-datadir     = /var/lib/mysql
-user        = mysql
-general_log = /var/log/mysqld.log
-pid-file    = /var/run/mysqld.pid
-socket      = /tmp/mysql.sock
-port        = 3306
+datadir          = /var/lib/mysql
+user             = mysql
+pid-file         = /var/run/mysqld.pid
+socket           = /tmp/mysql.sock
+port             = 3306
+general_log      = 1
+general_log_file = /var/log/mysqld.log
 
 skip-networking