From: walter harms
Date: November 13 2009 8:44am
Subject: Re: cannot find my.cnf file
List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/219357
Message-Id: <4AFD1C6A.50605@bfs.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



Sydney Puente schrieb:
> Hello,
> I want to log all sql queries made against a mysql db.
> Googled and found I should add a line to my.cnf.
> 
> However I cannot find a my.cnf file
> [root@radium init.d]# ps -ef | grep mysql
> root     13614     1  0 Sep24 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/object01.pid
> mysql    13669 13614  0 Sep24 ?        00:21:40 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/object01.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/object01.pid
> root     23050 22746  0 19:05 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mysql
> [root@radium init.d]# locate cnf
> /usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.39/my-huge.cnf
> /usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.39/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
> /usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.39/my-large.cnf
> /usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.39/my-medium.cnf
> /usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.39/my-small.cnf
> /usr/share/man/man8/cnfsheadconf.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/cnfsstat.8.gz
> /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf
> /usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf
> /usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf
> /usr/share/mysql/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
> /usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf
> /usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf
> Any ideas?
> I might add i did not install mysql and I did not start it and the guy who did is in holiday!
> 

Systemwide config files are always in /etc/ (see: man hier).

re,
 wh