Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-27 Thread Moon's Father
I advise that you should put your my.cnf in mysql installation location. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Varuna Seneviratna < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Armin > I did what you said, now I understand what you say that there is no > sence in what I wanted to do.But I gave these commands as

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
Armin I did what you said, now I understand what you say that there is no sence in what I wanted to do.But I gave these commands as follows But it did not work.What I want is to specify a configuration file which is placed in the WINDOWS directory.The commands I ran C:\>NET STOP MySQL C:\>my

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Armin Schöffmann
Varuna, obviously it doesn't make much sense, to specify the my.ini location in my.ini itself. The "--defaults-file" option is used as a direct start-up parameter for mysql-server both, run as service or console-process. It simply tells the server-process where to look for the oneandonly my.ini. An

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Frank Black
Varuna Seneviratna schrieb: I added a line to the [mysqld) group As --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\my.ini" and then I restarted the service.Everything was fine.Then I took out the my.ini file in the MySQL instalation directory the result was an error message AS Could Not start the MySQL Service on