From: Dan Nelson
Date: May 31 2002 7:58pm
Subject: Re: my.cnf necessity
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In the last episode (May 31), mysql@stripped said:
> 
> I currently am a MySQL dba and am having issues from a security/linux
> administrator that doesn't want me to have access to the /etc/my.cnf. 
> What can't I do with local database .cnf files that I can only do with
> my.cnf?

There are no database-level .cnf files.   There is /etc/my.cnf,
DATADIR/my.cnf, and ~/my.cnf.  They are all parsed the same way.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped