Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Creating the directory by default is definitely a good idea. Also, the > config file by default can point to /var/mysql/5.0/datadir . Now, if the > user wants some place else, then it is entirely upto him to edit the > config file. But, requiring them to create this basic stuffs can be > considered non intuitive by the customers.
Ok, this means we should provide a default MySQL config file (my.cnf) in /etc as well? Else the user have to create this, and by doing that I think the user also should create the directories. Default size for the MySQL log and data files would be around 21 Mb, so it is not too space consuming. Jan S > > - sriram > > Jan S Berg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks for feedback. >> >> I think maybe we should drop the /var/mysql/datadir, >> since we are only providing a sample mysql config file which should be >> edited, and the directories created, by the user. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Jan S >> >> Sriram Natarajan wrote: >>> Should you not have like - /var/mysql/5.0/datadir ? >>> >>> Jan S Berg wrote: >>>> A first draft for the MySQL ARC case is posted at: >>>> >>>> http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/MySQL50ArcCase >>>> >>>> Comments appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jan Berg >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> webstack-discuss mailing list >>>> webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >>>> > _______________________________________________ > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >
