On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:33:37PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a rogue .my.cnf file or my.cnf lurking about elsewhere maybe?
> 
> Ah, you're absolutely right.  In /etc/my.conf there appears
> 
> skip-networking
> 
> The problem is, I need to run multiple mysql servers on this
> machine.  Is there a way I can reverse the effect of
> skip-networking, or else skip reading /etc/my.cnf (the one in the
> basedir and $HOME/.my.cnf is enough)?

Put the most common stuff in /etc/my.cnf.

Then put the instance-specific stuff in a my.cnf file in each server's
data directory.  That should do the trick.

Jeremy
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