On 8 Apr 2009, at 22:32, Sriram Natarajan wrote: > In Linux, the convention to read configuration files are from /etc/ > <filename>. > For example, PHP configuration files are read from /etc/php.ini. > Similarly , for Apache, configuration files are at /etc/httpd.conf > and MySQL configuration file at /etc/my.cnf
Actually, it's been a convention on many Linux distros for years to put the configuration file for a major component into an appropriate component directory within etc. Ie. /etc/apache2 or /etc/mysql. We changed MySQL a couple of years ago so that it will look in /etc/ mysql/my.cnf and /etc/my.cnf precisely to fall in line with the changes occuring in the distributions. > In OpenSolaris, the default configuration files reside under /etc/ > <component-name>/<version> > > So, Apache or PHP or MySQL configuration file resides under > /etc/apache2/2.2/httpd.conf or /etc/php/5.2/php.ini or /etc/mysql/ > <5.1>/my.cnf Correct - but we create a link from /etc/mysql/5.0/my.cnf to /etc/ mysql/my.cnf. > So, reading from /etc/my.cnf would be an exception and we should > avoid making exceptions unless there is a very good reason to > support it. It's not an exception, it's an alternative location. MC -- Martin 'MC' Brown, mc at mcslp.com and mc.brown at sun.com Technical Writer, Database Group, Sun Microsystems Everything MCslp: http://planet.mcslp.com
