thanks victoria. now that is cleared up for me.
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From: Victoria Reznichenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: safe_mysqld - my.cnf weird foo
Shon,
Tuesday, July 16, 2002, 10:45:19 PM, you wrote:
SS> i configure/make/make install mysql-3.23.51 on sparc solaris using
SS> gcc-2.95.2. i used the configure option --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc.
SS> i ran the mysql_install_db script, i performed all the chown/chgrp
SS> operations, i copied mysql.server to /etc/rc3.d/S99mysql. i copied
SS> my-huge.cnf to /usr/local/etc/my.cnf and edited this to add some
SS> different options. when i start mysql, the my.cnf file was not
SS> loading. i could tell because some of the options i specified were
SS> not being run. i copied my.cnf to /etc/my.cnf and tried again.
SS> everything worked. why? i changed the sysconfdir during
SS> configuration.
option --sysconfdir is supported by configure, not by MySQL.
You can't specify another location for my.cnf than
/etc/my.cnf
DATADIR/my.cnf
~/.my.cnf
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