Re: mysql5 options file location

2006-03-13 Thread Alex Moore
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:05:30 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exactly what are the problems you are having with the server > specific my.cnf file? Sorry, I thought that I had described the problem. A quick example was 'my_print_defaults mysqld' returning only the options defined in the gl

Re: mysql5 options file location

2006-03-13 Thread Alex Moore
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:52:03 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Alex. It seems that mysqld and all the client > programs insist on reading /etc/my.cnf first. > > To overide this behaviour for a particular instance of > mysqld you need to pass the --defaults-file option as the > FIRST

mysql5 options file location

2006-03-13 Thread Alex Moore
I am building mysql5 latest from source on Solaris. The location of the options file is very confusing and does not work according to the online documentation. For example, I have --basedir of /opt/csw/mysql5 and --datadir of /opt/csw/mysql5/var. If I put my.cnf in datadir or in basedir, the fil