How to pass "--external-locking" for mysqld in Ubuntu

Question

Hi,

I would like to start my mysql server with the --external-locking option. As mysqld is run by the /etc/init.d/mysql script ubuntu (karmic), I guess that's where I should set this "--external-locking" thing, just can't figure out where to put it(am far from expertise in shell scripting:). Could anyone please help me with that?

Setting variable in /etc/mysql/my.cnf would be probably an easier option, but either I'm being bitten by this bug or I just don't define it correctly, but with all of the given parameters:

a) external-locking = on
b) external-locking = off
c) #skip-external-locking
d) skip-external-locking

being set in my.cnf the output of mysql> show variables like '%locking%'; is the same:

+-----------------------+-------+
| Variable_name         | Value |
+-----------------------+-------+
| skip_external_locking | ON    | 
+-----------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

So I'm hoping that --external-locking passed to mysqld would do the trick, just can't find out how to set this url parameter in /etc/init.d/mysql startup (shell) script.

thanks in advance for any help!

P.S. Mysql version 5.1.37

Answer 1

external-locking is the correct answer. put the string in the [mysqld] section of the config file. (if still not working might be that bug is responsible...)