MySQL ignores config file

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Ethan T - 25 Jun 2004 22:24 GMT

I've copied my-medium.cnf to /etc/my.cnf and MySQL continues to ignore it. I
set port=3307 just to screw up the server, but nothing changes; the server
remains on 3306. I would like to move the location of my database but I
can't do that if MySQL won't read the config file (I'd rather not do this
with command-line options). Any ideas? I tried putting it in /usr/local as
well, but no change. There are no other my.cnf files on the system.

RedHat 7.3
MySQL 4.0.20 Standard binary distro

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Ethan T - 25 Jun 2004 22:52 GMT

> I've copied my-medium.cnf to /etc/my.cnf and MySQL continues to
> ignore it. I set port=3307 just to screw up the server, but nothing
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> ideas? I tried putting it in /usr/local as well, but no change. There
> are no other my.cnf files on the system.

OK, scratch that. Somehow the programs were figuring out that MySQL was
running on 3307 and miraculously started using that instead.

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