I've recently installed MySQL server and client 5.5.28 through rpm packages on an openSUSE machine, and I was not able to locate my.cnf
file. I look into all directories mysql --verbose --help | grep -C3 my.cnf
printed which was /etc/my.cnf
(no such a file), /etc/mysql/my.cnf
(no directory as mysql
), usr/etc/my.cnf
(don't have etc
in my usr
) and ~/.my.cnf
(doesn't exist). Then I tried find / -name *.cnf
which gave me:
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a/my-huge.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a/my-large.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a/my-medium.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-standard-5.0.24a/my-small.cnf
/usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf
I want to edit my.cnf
file to practice replication and high availability. I read somewhere that having my.cnf
file won't be necessary to use MySQL well not in my case… so I was thinking to rename one these my-*.cnf
to my.cnf
and put it in the locations that MySQL would look for my.cnf
file. But I'm not sure first if this would work, and second which one to pick to be able to practice replication.
I don't want to make it complex for myself, so I was thinking to take the medium one… Am I doing the right thing?
Best Answer
If you are doing replication and you are just practicing, the
my.cnf
you choose is not that important. However, the smaller the config, the better. For example, if you DB Server has 2GB RAM, you should not choosemy-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
.If you started up mysql with a my.cnf, you create the default 10M or 18M
ibdata1
and 2 5M InnoDB log files (ib_logfile0
,ib_logfile1
). The medium cnf has the following InnoDB settings:Since everything related to InnoDB is commented out, you should OK to choose
my-medium.cnf
Simply run this:
Now, as for MySQL Replication, I have Good News : I already answered a post back on
Feb 06, 2012
( How to setup replication(Master/slave) in MySQL 5.5.20? ) with all the steps you need to automate a Slave's creation.Here is a couple more of my posts with more advanced replication setups
May 07, 2012
: Setting Circular Replication in mysqlSep 24, 2012
: Setting up MySQL circular replication in existing replication topology?Nov 26, 2012
: Replicate MySQL 5.0 Master to 5.5 Slave?