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I recently setup a new web server with Ubuntu 12.04. I noticed that there are two my.cnf files, and MySQL successfully reads both:

  • /etc/my.cnf
  • /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Do I need to keep both of these files?

If possible, I would like to simply merge the lines from one my.cnf into the other, thereby having only one my.cnf to manage.

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You should only need one of those, but for legacy reasons MySQL will LOOK in those places (and a few others, some of them really strange, because that's how it is). Feel free to consolidate.

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