On 5 Jan 2004 at 14:18, Chris Seidel wrote: > Thus I had to reset the max_allowed_packet size to allow for larger > packets by restarting the server with > > /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --set-variable > max_allowed_packet=10M >/dev/null 2>&1 & > > To do this I edited the mysqld file in /etc/init.d so that this > variable will be set whenever safe_mysqld starts up. I would have > thought this could be specified in my.cnf, but it doesn't seem so.
What makes you think it can't? I've had this in the [mysqld] section of my my.cnf for ages, and it works fine: set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M I see now that that syntax is deprecated in MySQL 4.0, so I should at some point change it to max_allowed_packet = 16M -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tobacco Documents Online http://tobaccodocuments.org -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
