Question

In UNIX, the name of the option file is __________

(a) .my.cnf

(b) .my.ini

(c) .my.opt

(d) .my.opc

This question was posed to me in semester exam.

This intriguing question comes from Interacting with MySQL topic in portion General MySQL Use of MySQL

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) .my.cnf

The best I can explain: Under Unix, an option file is set up by creating a file named ‘~/.my.cnf’ in the home directory. ‘C:\my.ini’ is the option file that is setup in Windows. An option file stores the connection parameters.