my.cnf not being found?

2006-06-04 Thread Marcus Bointon
On the same OS X machine that's having prefpanel trouble with 5.0.22, I find that mysql is not loading the values set in /etc/my.cnf. The contents of the file is from another Mac that works just fine with it. The file is world-readable. Should it be somewhere else? Marcus -- Marcus Bointon

Re: my.cnf not being found?

2006-06-04 Thread Petr Chardin
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 23:28 +0100, Marcus Bointon wrote: On the same OS X machine that's having prefpanel trouble with 5.0.22, I find that mysql is not loading the values set in /etc/my.cnf. The contents of the file is from another Mac that works just fine with it. The file is

Re: my.cnf not being found?

2006-06-04 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 5 Jun 2006, at 01:52, Petr Chardin wrote: mysqld --print-defaults. That produces: mysqld would have been started with the following arguments: i.e., it's got no options at all. It is a completely default install. Any other ideas? Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting

Re: my.cnf not being found?

2006-06-04 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 5 Jun 2006, at 03:12, Marcus Bointon wrote: Any other ideas? D'oh! I just fixed the my.cnf problems. Because of the slightly peculiar route that the my.cnf file got onto my MacBook, it had somehow had its line breaks translated to Mac format, and it seems MySQL doesn't like that. I