From: Prabhat Kumar
Date: August 2 2011 4:06pm
Subject: Re: about the config file
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correct,  dash (=93-=94) and underscore (=93_=94) may be used interchangeab=
ly.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/command-line-options.html
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Andrew Moore <eroomydna@stripped> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I asked this one a long time ago. They are interchangeable in most cases.=
 I
> can recall there was one or two options (pid-file and log-error...I
> think?!)
> that were funky with the '_' but I can't be sure that's still an issue.
>
> Try them out and don't worry too much about the aesthetics of the file.
>
> Andy
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Feng He <shorttag@stripped> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In mysql's config file my.cnf, are the variable names with "_" and "-"
> the
> > same?
> > for example,
> >
> > log_error =3D ...
> > log-error =3D ...
> >
> > Thanks.
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