There are 2 different possible situations you can face when you have to deal with MySQL and syslog:

1. MySQL is used as back-end for syslog to store the logging information. [6]
2. MySQL itself should report to the syslog.

In this blog article we look at the second situation: How can you make MySQL reporting to the syslog.

Since the version 5.1.20 MySQL is capable to log to the syslog [1], [2].