Where is my my.cnf?

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Where is my my.cnf?

Last Modified: Oct 9, 2010, 4:04 pm

Your my.cnf for the system will be at:

/etc/my.cnf

DirectAdmin does create a secondary my.cnf, but it's only used for the mysqldump calls. It's found at

/usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf

and should not be changed as it's overwritten regularly (based on the mysql.conf in the same directory).

Apart from those 2 my.cnf files, you should not have any my.cnf files anywhere else.

Common "bad" my.cnf files are:
1)

/etc/mysql/my.cnf

You shouldn't have this file.. and you shouldn't even have a /etc/mysql directory, as it will conflict with your /etc/my.cnf.

2)

/root/.my.cnf

This should not exist as our call to mysqldump will find it. Often admin's will have a user/password in that file, which breaks our calls to mysqldump.

In your 2 my.cnf files, only /usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf should have a user/password value. No other my.cnf file should have a user/pass set in it.

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