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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:43:01+00:00

I am using a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Apple computer. I installed MySQL

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I am using a Mac OS X Snow Leopard Apple computer.

I installed MySQL on my machine using instructions mentioned here. Everything works great. However I have two questions.

  1. Where is my.cnf file? I searched the whole file system and result is empty. Is it possible that there is no my.cnf and MySQL works with default values. If yes then probably I should create my.cnf at /etc/mysql. Is that right?

  2. How do I restart the MySQL server ? I know it gets started when I restart my machine. Here is what plist looks like. mysqld_safe does not let me restart server.

    KeepAlive

    Label
    com.mysql.mysqld
    Program
    /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe
    RunAtLoad

    UserName
    mysql
    WorkingDirectory
    /usr/local/mysql

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the example my.cnf that comes with mysql:

    # You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is /usr/local/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.

    On my OS X 10.4 instance, my.cnf is at /etc/my.cnf.

    To restart mysql, use mysqladmin to shut it down and then start it up again with mysqld_safe:

    /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -uroot -p shutdown
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe &
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