Martin Gregorie wrote: > > You'd save a lot of typing by putting most of these in a configuration > file, my.cnf, any putting that in C:\my.cnf or in the same directory as > mysqld.exe. > Of course. I just like a one liner for flexibility :) > > Try adding a line containing "hostname=localhost" to the configuration > file. > No change. [/quote]Please explain: by 'not with my Ubuntu' do you mean running mysqld.exe under Wine or do you mean using the native Linux mysqld executable? I thought you said you were trying the Linux version after getting no joy with the EXE.[/quote] No, I have tested mysqld.exe with an older and the newest mysql using Wine on Ubuntu. Running the same command line on Windows works, with Wine it does not work.
