Hrm, it has been so long I don't really remember. I don't remember it ever trying to get data from `~/.my.cnf`. My initial comment doesn't seem to suggest that it tried to get data from there either before or after looking at the strace output.
What makes you think that? -- Reply to this email on GitHub: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1199#issuecomment-38798848
