On Wednesday April 8 2009 12:37:50 Matt Ingenthron wrote:
> Brian Overstreet wrote:
> > Should the Webstack MySQL look at /etc/my.cnf location in addition to the
> > default Webstack location?
> >
> > Currently, MySQL will look in /etc for configuration in addition to the
> > default Webstack location of /etc/opt/...
>
> Since this is pretty well-known and well-defined behavior (i.e. it says
> so in the docs), I think it should.
>
> At least for OpenSolaris, there is no reason for it to be looking in
> /etc/opt. Were you referring to the other platforms?
Mainly I was referring to Red Hat. The Red Hat stack installation puts my.cnf
in /etc which could conflict with Webstack if both are installed.
>
> Personally speaking, I've used the fact that you can have multiple
> locations and precedence between the config files to my advantage when
> deploying multiple databases.
>
> - Matt
