Joel Gwynn writes:
> I'm running mysql 3.23.33 on debian. I'm using /etc/init.d/mysql.server
> to start up and shut down mysql server. My configuration file is
> /etc/mysql/my.cnf. In that file, I've set my socket as follows:
>
> socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
>
> When mysql starts, it seems to ignore this directive, and set up the socket
> on /tmp/mysql.sock. I looked into the mysql.server file, and found that it
> was looking for my.cnf at /etc/my.cnf, so I tried a couple of things.
> First I moved my.cnf to /etc/my.cnf. No difference. So I moved it back
> and edited the mysql.server file to look at /etc/mysql/my.cnf as follows:
>
> conf=/etc/mysql/my.cnf
>
> Still nothing. The only way I could get it to run on
> /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock was to edit the line in mysql.server that
> starts safe_mysql, ie:
> I had to change
> $bindir/safe_mysqld --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file &
> to
> $bindir/safe_mysqld --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file
> --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock &
>
> Isn't there a more elegant way to do this? Why is mysql.server ignoring
> the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file?
>
> Thank you for your time.
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> Joel Gwynn Designers' CADD Company, Inc.
> A bus station is where a bus stops.
> A train station is where a train stops.
> So now you know why they call this a workstation...
>
Hi!
Where in a documentation have you found that MySQL is looking for a
config file in /etc/mysql directory ??
Our manual is very precise on the location of config files.
Regards,
Sinisa
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