Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Michal,

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:42:09PM +0100, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> I've been thinking and MySQL uses MYSQLD_MULTI in /etc/sysconfig/mysql
> to determine whether user wants to start several instances of MySQL. If
> it is set to yes, init script starts mysql daemon for every mysqldN
> section in /etc/my.cnf As some users find it confusing to have
> /etc/my.cnf and /etc/sysconfig/mysql at the same time, I propose to drop
> /etc/sysconfig/mysql. It should be possible to check in init script
> whether user has several daemons configured and act accordingly. So we
> can get rid of the other configuration file and depend only on one
> configuration file. Only question is if anybody else then mysql need
> this sysconfig file... Does anybody think that we should preserve this
> sysconfig file? Do you know about anything else what needs this
> sysconfig variable?

I think, it doesn't matter too much. I would balance new source of
confusion (appeared file disappears again, or rather doesn't disappear
because /etc/sysconfig isn't cleaned up and the file remains on systems)
against simpler setup. One argument for /etc/sysconfig/mysql could be
that it makes the feature more visible; otherwise nobody would probably
look into the init script.

I don't think it matters much, either way.

Peter
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