> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:43:57 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> How about we use the --datadir=someplacesafe directive to point >> somewhere outside of /var/lib/mysql? That should allow the server to >> use /var/lib/mysql for important configuration files, etc., based on the >> default setting in the my.cnf file. >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-options.html > > This could work if --datadir means just and only the databases, > and not any other files. It would be a nice trick even. >
According to the documentation page above, --datadir does mean just the database files. The location of the other files used by MySQL is specified by the --basedir directive. _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
