Re: Windows cnf file location

[Paul DuBois]

At 20:51 +0000 11/12/02, Jannie Qu wrote:
>Hi, John,
>
>my.cnf is used as config file on windows. By default it is at, e.g. c:\winnt
>your boot system directory.


Not quite.

In the Windows system directory, the filename is my.ini.
In C:\, the filename is my.cnf.
In the MySQL data directory, the filename is my.cnf.

That is also the order in which MySQL programs look for option (config)
files.