trying to change wait_timeout

2011-09-07 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Hi all, I've read the documentation on MySQL for version 5.1 and it says all I have to do is to place the following: wait_timeout=xxx under [mysqld] did it and show variable like '%wait%' still show wait_timeout at 28800 as it does when I do a set global wait_timeout=10 What am I missing?

MySQL daemons restarting every 7 minutes

2011-09-07 Thread a . smith
Hi, as of yesterday the MySQL Daemons keep restarting every 7 mins or so on one of my FreeBSD servers. The only work carried out recently related to MySQL on this server was to temporarily disable replication (its a slave) of one DB, and then re-enable it (via restore of data and updati