On 09/14/16 19:29, Wietse Venema wrote: >>>> Perhaps Postfix needs to try to explicitly load the default config >>>> location when no override is set. >>> >>> How do we do that, without hard-coding '/etc/my.cnf' into Postfix? >>> That pathname is almost certainly incorrect on systems like *BSD >>> that install ports configuration files outside the base system >>> directory tree. >> >> It will even be incorrect on many Linux distributions (Ubuntu for >> example), many of which default to /etc/mysql/ instead of /etc/. > > Isn't this pathname defined in some #include file? How do other > client programs find out where the default location is?
Well, it's supposed to Just Work if they're using libmysqlclient. I'm not sure where to get the information of NOT using libmysqlclient, other than just searching likely locations. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485