Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-27 Thread Moon's Father
I advise that you should put your my.cnf in mysql installation location. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Varuna Seneviratna < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Armin > I did what you said, now I understand what you say that there is no > sence in what I wanted to do.But I gave these commands as

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
Armin I did what you said, now I understand what you say that there is no sence in what I wanted to do.But I gave these commands as follows But it did not work.What I want is to specify a configuration file which is placed in the WINDOWS directory.The commands I ran C:\>NET STOP MySQL C:\>my

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Armin Schöffmann
Varuna, obviously it doesn't make much sense, to specify the my.ini location in my.ini itself. The "--defaults-file" option is used as a direct start-up parameter for mysql-server both, run as service or console-process. It simply tells the server-process where to look for the oneandonly my.ini. An

Re: Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Frank Black
Varuna Seneviratna schrieb: I added a line to the [mysqld) group As --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\my.ini" and then I restarted the service.Everything was fine.Then I took out the my.ini file in the MySQL instalation directory the result was an error message AS Could Not start the MySQL Service on

Changing the location of my.ini and the order option files are read

2008-10-06 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
I added a line to the [mysqld) group As --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\my.ini" and then I restarted the service.Everything was fine.Then I took out the my.ini file in the MySQL instalation directory the result was an error message AS Could Not start the MySQL Service on Local Computer Error 1067 Th