Jonas Lind?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have been fiddeling with MySQL5 alpha for a little testing sessions but I 
> kept my MySQL4 installation. The problem is that I cant set the path for my my.cnf 
> file for MySQL5. I can use my.cnf if I put in /etc but then it conflicts with my 
> other MySQL installation. Does anyone have a tip for where I can staticly set the 
> path for my.cnf` for one of my MySQL installations? 

You can use --defaults-file option to specify path to the option file.
For example:

 shell> mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/path_to_the_option_file/my.cnf & 



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