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Thanks for your help, I'm using Slackware 14.2, actually my main problem was to change the data directory of MySQL Server I copied the contents of /var/lib/mysql to home directory and edited rc.mysqld I modified the line having --datadir=/var/lib/mysql to --datadir=/home/my-path Now its fine...

checked all the conf files. Everything is fine but whenever i restart /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld it picks /var/lib/mysql But After searching here and there, I found something related to mysql.server file. Then i did: cd /usr/share/mysql ./mysql.server start Now its picking my configuration. what is...

Changing mysql datadirectory is getting little bit of confusing. I added the following line in /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] datadir=/home/user/newdir still mysql is using /var/lib/mysql