[client] # Client configuration options user=yourusername password=yourpassword port=3306 socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock [mysqld] # MySQL server configuration user=mysql pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock port=3306 basedir=/usr datadir=/var/lib/mysql tmpdir=/tmp log-error=/var/log/mysql/error.log bind-address=127.0.0.1 max_connections=100 skip-external-locking # Buffer pool size for InnoDB innodb_buffer_pool_size=256M # Other MySQL server settings max_allowed_packet=16M query_cache_limit=1M query_cache_size=16M log_bin=/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log [mysql] # Client-specific settings for the MySQL command-line tool user=yourusername password=yourpassword no-auto-rehash