I added a line to the [mysqld) group As --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\my.ini" and then I restarted the service.Everything was fine.Then I took out the my.ini file in the MySQL instalation directory the result was an error message AS
Could Not start the MySQL Service on Local Computer Error 1067 The preocess terminated unexpectedly According to the manual MySQL server reads option files in the order Default options are read from the following files in the given order: C:\WINDOWS\my.ini C:\WINDOWS\my.cnf C:\my.ini C:\my.cnf C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\my.ini C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\my.cnf To see the order I ran the command mysqld-nt --verbose --help If the optin files read order is as above why can,t get the service started Varuna