hey everybody,

i was just testing out my freshly installed mysql... however it looks like since my last version, i have change some dirs around, and now i have a little extra work to do.. namely the socket file is moved from where i thought it would be... i guess i messed up on the install? anyhow i should be able to set a new location for the socket file in /etc/my.cnf, right? i think so.. my question is this,
WHERE IS my.cnf AT?!!
its not in /etc, everything i have read says /etc.. but it is not there... any ideas?

You need to create it in /etc

Jamie...

referred here from my thread next door in Installation. I'm a student, struggling with a mess after upgrading from RedHat 6.2 to 7.0, and finally erasing everything MySQL and resinstalling from the latest at mysql.com

I used to have MySQ 3.22.32, and it worked fine, and I only knew enough about it to use it. The teacher got us set up, and all this under the hood stuff is new to me. I now have MySQL 3.23.38, and it also doesn't have /etc/my.cnf, but in the support-files subdirectory I have 4 files, my_huge.cnf, my_large.cnf, my_medium.cnf and my_small.cnf. All of them say to copy (whichever one I choose, based on my system and usage, I guess) to /etc/mf/cnf. Unless there are 4 consecutive typos, that's mf.cnf, rather than my.cnf. In mysql.server, there are clearly references to my.cnf as the place to go to get config info. I'm guessing I should copy to /etc and let the name be my.cnf, not mf.cnf.