>>>simply set it in /etc/my.cnf... two issues with that... 1) i have no /etc/my.cnf file... (although i do with other FC3 installs.. so i could copy one over easily enough) 2) even in looking through one of the other my.cnf files, i don't see what/how to add to implement my change... any thoughts/ideas... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:28 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: updating a init.d script Am Mi, den 04.05.2005 schrieb bruce um 15:24: > a rather simple issue. i'm trying to make changes to the following init.d > script which is used to start/stop mysql. i'd like to be able to prepend the > option '--old-passwords' to the '/usr/sbin/mysqld'. any ideas as to how i > should accomplish this... > bruce Simply set it in /etc/my.cnf. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp Serendipity 15:27:27 up 1 day, 23:33, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.03