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I just installed apache LAMP server along with phpmyadmin to make database editing easier. Now that I've installed everything, I can't find the .my.cnf file that should have been generated. I thought it would be in my home directory but it isn't.

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What Linux distro are you using and how did you install phpmyadmin and MySQL? – Scott Warren Aug 1 '11 at 19:10
As tagged, I'm using ubuntu 10.04. I installed MySQL as part of the LAMP stack package. I installed phpmyadmin seperately under the mysql server through the ubuntu package manager. I hope my responses made sense. I'm new at server systems and not yet exactly what you would call competent. – Yitzchak Aug 1 '11 at 19:14
Why do you expect there to have been a .my.cnf file generated? – andol Aug 1 '11 at 19:16
@andol Because the only other times that I've used a mysql database on a LAMP server there was one. – Yitzchak Aug 1 '11 at 19:21
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The my.cnf is in /etc/mysql/my.cnf unless you installed it from the repository. If it is (for whatever reason) not in this place issue an sudo find / -iname my.cnf and see where it is.

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I did install from the repository, and yes, it's there. Thanks! – Yitzchak Aug 1 '11 at 19:23
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