Bug #2745 Unable to access "Startup Variables" Fedora Core 1

Description:
The "Startup Variables" menu item report the error "Could not locate the my.cnf configuration file" and does not display any additional information at the command line either. I have the my.cnf in the standard location /etc/my.cnf and a link at /etc/mysql/my.cnf pointing to the first one.

Using MySQL from the available RPMs:
 MySQL-Max-4.0.16-0
 MySQL-server-4.0.17-0
 MySQL-devel-4.0.16-0
 MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.17-0
 MySQL-client-4.0.17-0
 mysqlclient9-3.23.22-8
 MySQL-embedded-4.0.16-0
 MySQL-python-0.9.1-6

And MySQL Administrator from binary:
 mysql-administrator-1.0.1a-linux.tar.gz

How to repeat:
It happening every time I run it as root or any other user.

Suggested fix:
1) Include an option in the preference dialog at "General Opitons" for the user to configure the path to my.cnf.

2) Provide a verbose or debugging option at the command-line (like, ./mysql-administrator -vvv) such that the user can actually see messages with the actual request doing by the software, like "looking for my.cnf at path /etc/my.cnf", etc.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
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next release.

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Additional info:

The original problem has been fixed in the code, which should fix the problem for you and similar cases. I've also added a --my-cnf-path= cmd line argument so you can pass it in case you have it in a non-standard location.