> >> Perhaps Postfix needs to try to explicitly load the default config
> >> location when no override is set.
> >
> > How do we do that, without hard-coding '/etc/my.cnf' into Postfix?
> > That pathname is almost certainly incorrect on systems like *BSD
> > that install ports configuration files outside the base system
> > directory tree.
>
> It will even be incorrect on many Linux distributions (Ubuntu for
> example), many of which default to /etc/mysql/ instead of /etc/.
Isn't this pathname defined in some #include file? How do other
client programs find out where the default location is?
Wietse