Re: my.cnf mystery

[Dennis]

At 08:30 PM 06/12/2001, Philip Mak wrote:
>[client]
>port=3306
>socket=/home/mysql/mysql.sock
>
>[mysqld]
>port=3306
>socket=/home/mysql/mysql.sock


here are examples of variables that you could not deduce from using --help. 
the "socket" one,for example, was one that I asked about last week, when 
the consensus answer was to use a link to change this. Clearly the my.cnf 
route is a better choice.

Dennis