Bug #10171 my.cnf ignored on server startup
Submitted: 26 Apr 2005 11:20 Modified: 26 May 2005 13:23
Reporter: Michael Doherty Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.1 OS:Windows (Windows NT4)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[26 Apr 2005 11:20] Michael Doherty 
Description:
Just installed version 5 on Windows NT system.
Tried to point MySQL to a different drive for the databases I have, so edited the datadir parameter in my.cnf.
No Joy - it appears this was being ignored completely. 

How to repeat:
Install MySQL 5 fresh on an NT4 system

Suggested fix:
Go into registry editor (regedit) and go to:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MySQL.

and look to the imagepath key.  It should read something like:

C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --defaults-file=C:\mysql\my.cnf MySQL

The default entry was:

C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt MySQL

thereby ignoring the ini file.
[26 Apr 2005 13:23] MySQL Verification Team 
Are you using the version 5.0.1 ? I recommend you to upgrade to
version 5.0.4 and no to edit the Windows registry for to resolve
issues like this. 
The below image path:

C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt MySQL

belongs to the normal service install e.g: mysqld-nt --install
please read the Manual how to install a service for to use
an option configuration file.
[26 May 2005 23:00] Bugs System 
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