On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:02:34PM -0400, Matt Babineau wrote: > Hey All-- > > I have MySQL 4.0.14 running on Redhat Linux and it won't accept my > change to the wait_timeout config option! > > In the my.cnf file I have a line > > wait_timeout = 60 > > but when I restart mysql and go into the server and type SHOW VARIABLES; > > it says the wait_timeout is still 28800 which is too long!
Are you sure MySQL is reading the my.cnf file? Is the setting in the correct ([mysqld]) section? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 18 days, processed 682,784,147 queries (417/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]