Satish,
Friday, July 05, 2002, 9:26:23 PM, you wrote:
SS> I am a newbie to MySQL administratation. I just
SS> setup MySQL in my linux machine and want to change the
SS> data directory from /var/lib/mysql to something else.
SS> I put the .my.cnf file in the /etc/ directory and
SS> specified the parameter datadir=/home/mysql but it
SS> gives me an error invalid option. Any help is
SS> appreciated.
You should put my.cnf file, not .my.cnf in /etc/
Did you put entry
datadir=/home/mysql
in the [mysqld] section?
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