On Tue, 08 May 2012 21:51:49 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: >On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: >> On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 >> Matthew Seaman articulated: >> >>> >Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the >>> >my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some >>> >talk about moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to >>> >/usr/local/etc/my.cnf (no doubt under some insidious influence from >>> >Linux.) > >> The first time I ever looked for "my.cnf" I had expected to find it >> in "/usr/local/etc". Since so many configuration files are stored >> there, it just seemed like a natural place for it to be located. >> IMHO, a centralized repository for configuration files greatly >> simplifies system maintenance. > >Yeah. It's no big deal. > >But... > >Maybe you want to run more than one instance of mysql on the same >machine. > >Or you want to move the data directory lock, stock and barrel onto a >different server. Maybe it's some ultra fancy fail-over setup with a >data dir shared between two servers. Keeping the configs with the data >does have a few advantages.
Actually, it has a lot of advantages. I only run one instance of MySQL; however, for multiple instances, keeping the configs in one location would probably not be advantageous. Someone else mentioned creating a link for the my.cnf file. Since I never touch the my.cnf file once MySQL is setup, I probably would not bother with it, although it is an interesting idea. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
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