Bug #50601 | Workbench won't connect without my.cnf in /etc | ||
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Submitted: | 25 Jan 2010 19:19 | Modified: | 26 Feb 2010 18:16 |
Reporter: | Heather Collins | Email Updates: | |
Status: | No Feedback | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Workbench: Administration | Severity: | S1 (Critical) |
Version: | 5.4 | OS: | MacOS |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any | |
Tags: | install, my.cnf, workbench |
[25 Jan 2010 19:19]
Heather Collins
[26 Jan 2010 11:14]
Johannes Taxacher
Hi Heather, does Admin completely refuse to start? i can start it here, using a local server profile, without even having a local db installed. it just informs me of not being able to connect and it wont give me much data or an edit-enabled config-grid. but its starting just fine.
[26 Jan 2010 15:26]
Heather Collins
Hi Johannes, Yes it starts. The bug is that it won't connect to the server. Thanks!
[26 Jan 2010 18:16]
Valeriy Kravchuk
I do NOT think this is a bug at all. It is common practice in UNIX (and Mac OS X is a kind of UNIX internally after all) to use /etc/my.cnf and other files in /etc for storing information (in plain text files) about configuration of different programs and services. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/option-files.html. Also when you create new server instance, at a later stage, there is a separate dialog box where you can provide path to server's configuration file. So, I see no big problem with using /etc/my.cnf by default. There is no /usr/local/mysql/my.cnf installed from .dmg anyway...
[27 Feb 2010 0:00]
Bugs System
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open".
[30 Apr 2010 15:29]
Larry Cynkin
The problem is that a fresh install of MySQL 5.1 on a Mac does not include any my.cnf file, in /etc or elsewhere. An optimal solution would be for Workbench to create that file if none is found.