Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 16:54:05 -0400 From: "Andre Goree" <andre@drenet.info> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways? Message-ID: <op.wd0ccfakqdqf40@sideswipe.accesso.office> In-Reply-To: <20120508155536.505fd7ed@scorpio> References: <898E0B3D-63DD-470C-8F1D-49F478D05C7E@gmail.com> <4FA92EDA.3090809@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120508155536.505fd7ed@scorpio>
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On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:55:36 -0400, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 > Matthew Seaman articulated: > >> Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf >> that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about >> moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to >> /usr/local/etc/my.cnf (no doubt under some insidious influence from >> Linux.) > > The first time I ever looked for "my.cnf" I had expected to find it in > "/usr/local/etc". Since so many configuration files are stored there, > it just seemed like a natural place for it to be located. IMHO, a > centralized repository for configuration files greatly simplifies > system maintenance. > Hence the reason almost all of my config files are symlinked in someway in /etc/ Call it a habit from spending much of my time using & working on Linux :p -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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