Where does Slack (12.2) get its default MySQL configuration settings?

dizzi · 04-01-2009, 07:57 PM

The default Slack MySQL installation comes with no "/etc/my.cnf" but still works fine. Where does MySQL read its configuration settings? Which of the four examples "my-small.cnf", "my-medium.cnf", "my-large.cnf", "my-huge.cnf" available in the "/etc" directory represents the default settings?

Cheers

bgeddy · 04-01-2009, 08:54 PM

As far as I know none of the supplied four my-files are read to get the defaults. I believe the defaults are built into the database engine and applied when no configuration file exists. To see what defaults are built in run this :

Code:

/usr/libexec/mysqld --no-defaults --verbose --help

dizzi · 04-02-2009, 03:40 PM

Ah thanks for the information bgeddy.