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Fixing my.cnf on Fedora

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Working with a Fedora 16 VM for my students (next term) and found that the MySQL Server’s my.cnf file worked with a Linux socket as opposed to a listener port, and that several configuration options where missing from the file. Here’s the default /etc/my.cnf file after the package installation from the Red Hat site:

[mysqld]
# Settings user and group are ignored when systemd is used.
# If you need to run mysqld under different user or group,
# customize your systemd unit file for mysqld according to the
# instructions in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks
symbolic-links=0
 
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

Without rebuilding the log files, this seemed like the cleanest replacement for the MySQL Server my.cnf for a development instance running on Fedora 16. If you’ve other suggestions, please let me know.

[mysqld]
# Settings user and group are ignored when systemd is used.
# If you need to run mysqld under different user or group,
# customize your systemd unit file for mysqld according to the
# instructions in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
 
# Default directory.
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
 
# The TCP/IP Port the MySQL Server listens on.
# ------------------------------------------------------------
#   Find the machine's IP address with this command run as
#   the root user and use the port number specified in the
#   my.cnf file:
#   [root@localhost ~]# netstat -an | grep 3306
# ------------------------------------------------------------
 
bind-address=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
port=3306
 
# The Linux Socket the MySQL Server uses when not using a listener.
# socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
 
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks
symbolic-links=0
 
# The default storage engine that will be used when creating new tables.
default-storage-engine=INNODB
 
# Set the SQL mode to strict.
sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
 
# Set the maximum number of connections.
max_connections=100
 
# Set the number of open tables for all threads.
table_cache=256
 
# Set the maximum size for internal (in-memory) temporary tables.
tmp_table_size=26M
 
# Set how many threads should be kept in a cache for reuse.
thread_cache_size=8
 
# MyISAM configuration.
myisam_max_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_sort_buffer_size=52M
key_buffer_size=36M
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K
sort_buffer_size=256K
 
# InnoDB configuration.
innodb_data_home_dir=/var/lib/mysql
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=25M
innodb_log_file_size=5M
innodb_thread_concurrency=8
 
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

As always, I hope this helps somebody.

Written by maclochlainn

December 7th, 2011 at 1:15 am