Mysql could not be started because unknown variable 'log-syslog=1'

Platform System： WSL（ubuntu 18.04）.

when installed mysql-server 8.0 sucess， i try to start mysql. But it's fail to start.Then checked the error.log.

2019-02-26T03:13:51.609895Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000067] [Server] unknown variable 'log-syslog=1'.

how to fix it ?

I've run into the same problem as yourself and found this question while looking for solution. Eventually I found the culprit.

You will find that /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf contains 2 rows:

[mysqld_safe]
syslog

The only thing you have to do is remove syslog. I just commented it out:

[mysqld_safe]
#syslog

And now it works.
It is weird that it comes preconfigured like that since it is deprecated/removed (I did a clean install of v8.0.15).

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