[debian-mysql] Bug#484895: mysql-server: No good way to set mysqld command-line options

[Pieter Ennes]

Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.0.32-7etch5
Severity: minor

There are command-line options to mysqld_safe that have no equivalent in my.cnf, for example --timezone. The Debian init script does not support additional command-line options, so one has to edit the /etc/init.d/mysql script manually. Would be nice if there was a /etc/default/mysql file or something along that lines.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii  mysql-server-5.0           5.0.32-7etch5 mysql database server binaries

mysql-server recommends no packages.

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