MySQL config file location - redhat linux server

Question

What is the default location for the MySQL configuration file on a redhat linux box?

Solution 1

Just found it, it is /etc/my.cnf

Solution 2

The information you want can be found by running

mysql --help

or

mysqld --help --verbose

I tried this :

    mysql --help | grep Default -A 1

And the output:

                      (Defaults to on; use --skip-auto-rehash to disable.)
  -A, --no-auto-rehash 
--
                      (Defaults to on; use --skip-line-numbers to disable.)
  -L, --skip-line-numbers 
--
                      (Defaults to on; use --skip-column-names to disable.)
  -N, --skip-column-names 
--
                      (Defaults to on; use --skip-reconnect to disable.)
  -s, --silent        Be more silent. Print results with a tab as separator,
--
  --default-auth=name Default authentication client-side plugin to use.
  --binary-mode       By default, ASCII '\0' is disallowed and '\r\n' is
--
Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf /usr/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf 

Solution 3

it is located at /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Solution 4

All of them seemed good candidates:

/etc/my.cnf
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
/var/lib/mysql/my.cnf
...

in many cases you could simply check system process list using ps:

server ~ # ps ax | grep '[m]ysqld'

Output

10801 ?        Ssl    0:27 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Or

which mysqld
/usr/sbin/mysqld

Then

/usr/sbin/mysqld --verbose --help | grep -A 1 "Default options"

/etc/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf /usr/etc/my.cnf

Solution 5

On RH systems, MySQL configuration file is located under /etc/my.cnf by default.

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