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my_cnf.bak ???

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TonyGroves

TonyGroves

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Every so often, maybe once a week, the MySQL server on my test machine (running Windows NT) fails to start, and when I check what's up, I find that the file c:\my.cnf has been renamed to my_cnf.bak, but its contents have not changed. When I rename it back again, I can start the server.

Now, I am the only user of that non-networked machine, I have never touched my.cnf since I finished installing MySQL, and there is no other program I can think of which would do such a thing. It has never happened on my production server, which also runs Windows NT, and has the same MySQL configuration.

Does anybody have any idea what could be happening here?

Thanks.
 
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The bastard! winmysqladmin.exe renames my.cnf to my_cnf.bak when it starts! Why on earth would it want to do that?

Warning to the world: don't use winmysqladmin.exe!
 
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