Bug #8727 5.0 does not read <datadir>/my.cnf
Submitted: 23 Feb 2005 12:33 Modified: 8 Mar 2005 9:50
Reporter: Alexander Keremidarski Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:Linux (Linux)
Assigned to: Jani Tolonen CPU Architecture:Any

[23 Feb 2005 12:33] Alexander Keremidarski 
Description:
The recent 5.0 from BK tree 

ChangeSet@1.1880, 2005-02-22 21:59:42+03:00, sergefp@mysql.com
BUILD/compile-pentium-debug-max

does not read <datadir>/my.cnf regardles of the way it is started. It doesn't mention it with --help -verbose too

# ./mysqld --help --verbose | grep -B1 my.cnf
Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf

How to repeat:
Build, install and try running mysqld with my.cnf in datadir

# ./mysqld --help --verbose | grep -B1 my.cnf
Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf
[8 Mar 2005 9:50] Jani Tolonen 
Updated MySQL manual about the change. One should use MYSQL_HOME environment
variable to set the path to my.cnf optionally. Otherwise only the default places,
global /etc/my.cnf and local /etc/my.cnf are read. MYSQL_HOME should contain
optional server specific my.cnf.

mysqld_safe was fixed to be backward compatible. If MYSQL_HOME is not set,
it will look my.cnf from DATADIR and BASEDIR.