From: Lenz Grimmer Date: May 22 2003 3:58pm Subject: Re: MySQL 4.0.13 has been released List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/140517 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ben Clewett wrote: > > I wrote: > > >>Can you please tell me where I am going wrong? > > Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > > Do you still have a configuration file named /etc/my.cnf installed by > > chance? This might explain why MySQL is choosing the wrong directory names > > Yes. I cleared this old machine by something similar to find / -name > "*mysql*" -exec rm -r. Obviously missed this one! OK, so I assume it works now. > Is there a way of renaming this something like mysql.conf so that this > doen't happen again? We've been discussing this, but this is not a trivial change, as it is been referenced in so many places - we're a bit hesitant about changing this for no good reason. Bye, LenZ - -- For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mlgr __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Mr. Lenz Grimmer / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Production Engineer /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Hamburg, Germany <___/ www.mysql.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+zPO8SVDhKrJykfIRAtzkAJ9RPmmAFPVOITt5kWL2+peEJ4dhLgCePpnS i58oIJQFmbWya6+/58IN85M= =xmyt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----