From: Thimble Smith
Date: March 22 1999 6:08am
Subject: Re: my.cnf
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On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:29:22PM -0800, Daniel wrote:
>   Hi, I can't find my.cnf anywhere. Am I suppose to create one?

Yeah, you can make your own.  Put it in the data directory (if you
want it to apply to a particular instance of the MySQL server) or
in /etc (if you want it to apply to any MySQL server running on the
machine).  Or you can put it in $HOME/.my.cnf if you only want it
to apply to a certain user.

Tim