The following options may be given as the first argument: --print-defaults Print the program argument list and exit. --no-defaults Don't read default options from any option file. --defaults-file=# Only read default options from the given file #. --defaults-extra-file=# Read this file after the global files are read. --allow-suspicious-udfs Allows use of UDFs consisting of only one symbol xxx() without corresponding xxx_init() or xxx_deinit(). That also means that one can load any function from any library, for example exit() from libc.so -a, --ansi Use ANSI SQL syntax instead of MySQL syntax. This mode will also set transaction isolation level 'serializable'. --auto-increment-increment[=#] Auto-increment columns are incremented by this --auto-increment-offset[=#] Offset added to Auto-increment columns. Used when auto-increment-increment != 1 --autocommit Set default value for autocommit (0 or 1) (Defaults to on; use --skip-autocommit to disable.) --automatic-sp-privileges Creating and dropping stored procedures alters ACLs (Defaults to on; use --skip-automatic-sp-privileges to disable.) --back-log=# The number of outstanding connection requests MySQL can have. This comes into play when the main MySQL thread gets very many connection requests in a very short time -b, --basedir=name Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this --big-tables Allow big result sets by saving all temporary sets on file (Solves most 'table full' errors) --bind-address=name IP address to bind to. --binlog-annotate-row-events Tells the master to annotate RBR events with the statement that caused these events --binlog-cache-size=# The size of the transactional cache for updates to transactional engines for the binary log. If you often use transactions containing many statements, you can increase this to get more performance --binlog-checksum=name Type of BINLOG_CHECKSUM_ALG. Include checksum for log events in the binary log. Possible values are NONE and CRC32; default is NONE. --binlog-direct-non-transactional-updates Causes updates to non-transactional engines using statement format to be written directly to binary log. Before using this option make sure that there are no dependencies between transactional and non-transactional tables such as in the statement INSERT INTO t_myisam SELECT * FROM t_innodb; otherwise, slaves may diverge from the master. --binlog-do-db=name Tells the master it should log updates for the specified database, and exclude all others not explicitly mentioned. --binlog-format=name What form of binary logging the master will use: either ROW for row-based binary logging, STATEMENT for statement-based binary logging, or MIXED. MIXED is statement-based binary logging except for those statements where only row-based is correct: those which involve user-defined functions (i.e. UDFs) or the UUID() function; for those, row-based binary logging is automatically used. If NDBCLUSTER is enabled and binlog-format is MIXED, the format switches to row-based and back implicitly per each query accessing an NDBCLUSTER table --binlog-ignore-db=name Tells the master that updates to the given database should not be logged to the binary log. --binlog-optimize-thread-scheduling Run fast part of group commit in a single thread, to optimize kernel thread scheduling. On by default. Disable to run each transaction in group commit in its own thread, which can be slower at very high concurrency. This option is mostly for testing one algorithm versus the other, and it should not normally be necessary to change it. (Defaults to on; use --skip-binlog-optimize-thread-scheduling to disable.) --binlog-row-event-max-size=# The maximum size of a row-based binary log event in bytes. Rows will be grouped into events smaller than this size if possible. The value has to be a multiple of 256. --binlog-stmt-cache-size=# The size of the statement cache for updates to non-transactional engines for the binary log. If you often use statements updating a great number of rows, you can increase this to get more performance --bootstrap Used by mysql installation scripts. --bulk-insert-buffer-size=# Size of tree cache used in bulk insert optimisation. Note that this is a limit per thread! --character-set-client-handshake Don't ignore client side character set value sent during handshake. (Defaults to on; use --skip-character-set-client-handshake to disable.) --character-set-filesystem=name Set the filesystem character set. -C, --character-set-server=name Set the default character set. --character-sets-dir=name Directory where character sets are -r, --chroot=name Chroot mysqld daemon during startup. --collation-server=name Set the default collation. --completion-type=name The transaction completion type, one of NO_CHAIN, CHAIN, RELEASE --concurrent-insert[=name] Use concurrent insert with MyISAM. Possible values are NEVER, AUTO, ALWAYS --connect-timeout=# The number of seconds the mysqld server is waiting for a connect packet before responding with 'Bad handshake' --console Write error output on screen; don't remove the console window on windows. --core-file Write core on errors. -h, --datadir=name Path to the database root directory --date-format=name The DATE format (ignored) --datetime-format=name The DATETIME format (ignored) --deadlock-search-depth-long=# Long search depth for the two-step deadlock detection --deadlock-search-depth-short=# Short search depth for the two-step deadlock detection --deadlock-timeout-long=# Long timeout for the two-step deadlock detection (in microseconds) --deadlock-timeout-short=# Short timeout for the two-step deadlock detection (in microseconds) --default-storage-engine=name The default storage engine for new tables --default-time-zone=name Set the default time zone. --default-week-format=# The default week format used by WEEK() functions --delay-key-write[=name] Type of DELAY_KEY_WRITE --delayed-insert-limit=# After inserting delayed_insert_limit rows, the INSERT DELAYED handler will check if there are any SELECT statements pending. If so, it allows these to execute before continuing --delayed-insert-timeout=# How long a INSERT DELAYED thread should wait for INSERT statements before terminating --delayed-queue-size=# What size queue (in rows) should be allocated for handling INSERT DELAYED. If the queue becomes full, any client that does INSERT DELAYED will wait until there is room in the queue again --div-precision-increment=# Precision of the result of '/' operator will be increased on that value --engine-condition-pushdown Push supported query conditions to the storage engine. Deprecated, use --optimizer-switch instead. (Defaults to on; use --skip-engine-condition-pushdown to disable.) --event-scheduler[=name] Enable the event scheduler. Possible values are ON, OFF, and DISABLED (keep the event scheduler completely deactivated, it cannot be activated run-time) --expensive-subquery-limit=# The maximum number of rows a subquery may examine in order to be executed during optimization and used for constant optimization --expire-logs-days=# If non-zero, binary logs will be purged after expire_logs_days days; possible purges happen at startup and at binary log rotation --external-locking Use system (external) locking (disabled by default). With this option enabled you can run myisamchk to test (not repair) tables while the MySQL server is running. Disable with --skip-external-locking. --extra-max-connections=# The number of connections on extra-port --extra-port=# Extra port number to use for tcp connections in a one-thread-per-connection manner. 0 means don't use another port --flush Flush MyISAM tables to disk between SQL commands --flush-time=# A dedicated thread is created to flush all tables at the given interval --ft-boolean-syntax=name List of operators for MATCH ... AGAINST ( ... IN BOOLEAN MODE) --ft-max-word-len=# The maximum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT index. Note: FULLTEXT indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable --ft-min-word-len=# The minimum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT index. Note: FULLTEXT indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable --ft-query-expansion-limit=# Number of best matches to use for query expansion --ft-stopword-file=name Use stopwords from this file instead of built-in list --gdb Set up signals usable for debugging. Deprecated, use --general-log Log connections and queries to a table or log file. Defaults logging to a file 'hostname'.log or a table mysql.general_logif --log-output=TABLE is used --general-log-file=name Log connections and queries to given file --group-concat-max-len=# The maximum length of the result of function GROUP_CONCAT() -?, --help Display this help and exit. --ignore-builtin-innodb Disable initialization of builtin InnoDB plugin --ignore-db-dirs=name Specifies a directory to add to the ignore list when collecting database names from the datadir. Put a blank argument to reset the list accumulated so far. --init-connect=name Command(s) that are executed for each new connection (unless the user has SUPER privilege) --init-file=name Read SQL commands from this file at startup --init-rpl-role=name Set the replication role. --init-slave=name Command(s) that are executed by a slave server each time the SQL thread starts --interactive-timeout=# The number of seconds the server waits for activity on an interactive connection before closing it --join-buffer-size=# The size of the buffer that is used for joins --join-buffer-space-limit=# The limit of the space for all join buffers used by a query --join-cache-level=# Controls what join operations can be executed with join buffers. Odd numbers are used for plain join buffers while even numbers are used for linked buffers --keep-files-on-create Don't overwrite stale .MYD and .MYI even if no directory is specified --key-buffer-size=# The size of the buffer used for index blocks for MyISAM tables. Increase this to get better index handling (for all reads and multiple writes) to as much as you can afford --key-cache-age-threshold=# This characterizes the number of hits a hot block has to be untouched until it is considered aged enough to be downgraded to a warm block. This specifies the percentage ratio of that number of hits to the total number of blocks in key cache --key-cache-block-size=# The default size of key cache blocks --key-cache-division-limit=# The minimum percentage of warm blocks in key cache --key-cache-segments=# The number of segments in a key cache -L, --language=name Client error messages in given language. May be given as a full path. Deprecated. Use --lc-messages-dir instead. --large-pages Enable support for large pages --lc-messages=name Set the language used for the error messages. -L, --lc-messages-dir=name Directory where error messages are --lc-time-names=name Set the language used for the month names and the days of the week. --local-infile Enable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE (Defaults to on; use --skip-local-infile to disable.) --lock-wait-timeout=# Timeout in seconds to wait for a lock before returning an error. -l, --log[=name] Log connections and queries to file (deprecated option, use --general-log/--general-log-file instead). --log-basename=name Basename for all log files and the .pid file. This sets all log file names at once (in 'datadir') and is normally the only option you need for specifying log files. Sets names for --log-bin, --log-bin-index, --relay-log, --relay-log-index, --general-log-file, --log-slow-query-log-file, --log-error-file, and --pid-file --log-bin[=name] Log update queries in binary format. Optional argument should be name for binary log. If not given 'datadir'/'log-basename'-bin or 'datadir'/mysql-bin will be used (the later if --log-basename is not specified). We strongly recommend to use either --log-basename or specify a filename to ensure that replication doesn't stop if the real hostname of the computer changes. --log-bin-index=name File that holds the names for last binary log files. --log-bin-trust-function-creators If set to FALSE (the default), then when --log-bin is used, creation of a stored function (or trigger) is allowed only to users having the SUPER privilege and only if this stored function (trigger) may not break binary logging. Note that if ALL connections to this server ALWAYS use row-based binary logging, the security issues do not exist and the binary logging cannot break, so you can safely set this to TRUE --log-error[=name] Log errors to file (instead of stdout). If file name is not specified then 'datadir'/'log-basename'.err or the 'pid-file' path with extension .err is used --log-isam[=name] Log all MyISAM changes to file. --log-output=name Syntax: log-output=value[,value...], where "value" could be TABLE, FILE or NONE --log-queries-not-using-indexes Log queries that are executed without benefit of any index to the slow log if it is open --log-short-format Don't log extra information to update and slow-query logs. --log-slave-updates Tells the slave to log the updates from the slave thread to the binary log. You will need to turn it on if you plan to daisy-chain the slaves --log-slow-admin-statements Log slow OPTIMIZE, ANALYZE, ALTER and other administrative statements to the slow log if it is open. --log-slow-filter=name Log only certain types of queries. Multiple flags can be specified, separated by commas. Valid values are admin, slave, filesort, filesort_on_disk, full_join, full_scan, query_cache, query_cache_miss, tmp_table, tmp_table_on_disk --log-slow-queries[=name] Enable logging of slow queries (longer than --long-query-time) to log file or table. Optional argument is a file name for the slow log. If not given, 'log-basename'-slow.log will be used. Use --log-output=TABLE if you want to have the log in the table mysql.slow_log. Deprecated option, use --slow-query-log/--slow-query-log-file instead. --log-slow-rate-limit=# Write to slow log every #th slow query. Set to 1 to log everything. Increase it to reduce the size of the slow or the performance impact of slow logging --log-slow-slave-statements Log slow statements executed by slave thread to the slow log if it is open. --log-slow-verbosity=name log-slow-verbosity=[value[,value ...]] where value is one of 'innodb', 'query_plan' --log-tc=name Path to transaction coordinator log (used for transactions that affect more than one storage engine, when binary log is disabled). --log-tc-size=# Size of transaction coordinator log. -W, --log-warnings[=#] Log some not critical warnings to the general log file.Value can be between 0 and 11. Higher values mean more verbosity --long-query-time=# Log all queries that have taken more than long_query_time seconds to execute to file. The argument will be treated as a decimal value with microsecond precision --low-priority-updates INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE has lower priority than selects --lower-case-table-names[=#] If set to 1 table names are stored in lowercase on disk and table names will be case-insensitive. Should be set to 2 if you are using a case insensitive file system --master-info-file=name The location and name of the file that remembers the master and where the I/O replication thread is in the master's binlogs. Defaults to master.info --master-retry-count=# The number of tries the slave will make to connect to the master before giving up. --master-verify-checksum Force checksum verification of logged events in the binary log before sending them to slaves or printing them in the output of SHOW BINLOG EVENTS --max-allowed-packet=# Max packet length to send to or receive from the server --max-binlog-cache-size=# Sets the total size of the transactional cache --max-binlog-size=# Binary log will be rotated automatically when the size exceeds this value. --max-binlog-stmt-cache-size=# Sets the total size of the statement cache --max-connect-errors=# If there is more than this number of interrupted connections from a host this host will be blocked from further connections --max-connections=# The number of simultaneous clients allowed --max-delayed-threads=# Don't start more than this number of threads to handle INSERT DELAYED statements. If set to zero INSERT DELAYED will be not used --max-error-count=# Max number of errors/warnings to store for a statement --max-heap-table-size=# Don't allow creation of heap tables bigger than this --max-join-size=# Joins that are probably going to read more than max_join_size records return an error --max-length-for-sort-data=# Max number of bytes in sorted records --max-long-data-size=# The maximum BLOB length to send to server from mysql_send_long_data API. Deprecated option; use max_allowed_packet instead. --max-prepared-stmt-count=# Maximum number of prepared statements in the server --max-relay-log-size=# relay log will be rotated automatically when the size exceeds this value. If 0 are startup, it's set to max_binlog_size --max-seeks-for-key=# Limit assumed max number of seeks when looking up rows based on a key --max-sort-length=# The number of bytes to use when sorting BLOB or TEXT values (only the first max_sort_length bytes of each value are used; the rest are ignored) --max-sp-recursion-depth[=#] Maximum stored procedure recursion depth --max-tmp-tables=# Maximum number of temporary tables a client can keep open at a time --max-user-connections=# The maximum number of active connections for a single user (0 = no limit) --max-write-lock-count=# After this many write locks, allow some read locks to run in between --memlock Lock mysqld in memory. --metadata-locks-cache-size=# Size of unused metadata locks cache --min-examined-row-limit=# Don't write queries to slow log that examine fewer rows than that --mrr-buffer-size=# Size of buffer to use when using MRR with range access --multi-range-count=# Ignored. Use mrr_buffer_size instead --myisam-block-size=# Block size to be used for MyISAM index pages --myisam-data-pointer-size=# Default pointer size to be used for MyISAM tables --myisam-max-sort-file-size=# Don't use the fast sort index method to created index if the temporary file would get bigger than this --myisam-mmap-size=# Restricts the total memory used for memory mapping of MySQL tables --myisam-recover-options[=name] Syntax: myisam-recover-options[=option[,option...]], where option can be DEFAULT, BACKUP, BACKUP_ALL, FORCE, QUICK, or OFF --myisam-repair-threads=# If larger than 1, when repairing a MyISAM table all indexes will be created in parallel, with one thread per index. The value of 1 disables parallel repair --myisam-sort-buffer-size=# The buffer that is allocated when sorting the index when doing a REPAIR or when creating indexes with CREATE INDEX or ALTER TABLE --myisam-stats-method=name Specifies how MyISAM index statistics collection code should treat NULLs. Possible values of name are NULLS_UNEQUAL (default behavior for 4.1 and later), NULLS_EQUAL (emulate 4.0 behavior), and NULLS_IGNORED --myisam-use-mmap Use memory mapping for reading and writing MyISAM tables --net-buffer-length=# Buffer length for TCP/IP and socket communication --net-read-timeout=# Number of seconds to wait for more data from a connection before aborting the read --net-retry-count=# If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up --net-write-timeout=# Number of seconds to wait for a block to be written to a connection before aborting the write --old Use compatible behavior --old-alter-table Use old, non-optimized alter table --old-passwords Use old password encryption method (needed for 4.0 and older clients) --old-style-user-limits Enable old-style user limits (before 5.0.3, user resources were counted per each user+host vs. per account). --one-thread (Deprecated): Only use one thread (for debugging under Linux). Use thread-handling=no-threads instead. --open-files-limit=# If this is not 0, then mysqld will use this value to reserve file descriptors to use with setrlimit(). If this value is 0 then mysqld will reserve max_connections*5 or max_connections + table_cache*2 (whichever is larger) number of file descriptors --optimizer-prune-level=# Controls the heuristic(s) applied during query optimization to prune less-promising partial plans from the optimizer search space. Meaning: 0 - do not apply any heuristic, thus perform exhaustive search; 1 - prune plans based on number of retrieved rows --optimizer-search-depth=# Maximum depth of search performed by the query optimizer. Values larger than the number of relations in a query result in better query plans, but take longer to compile a query. Values smaller than the number of tables in a relation result in faster optimization, but may produce very bad query plans. If set to 0, the system will automatically pick a reasonable value; if set to 63, the optimizer will switch to the original find_best search. NOTE: The value 63 and its associated behaviour is deprecated --optimizer-switch=name optimizer_switch=option=val[,option=val...], where option is one of {derived_merge, derived_with_keys, firstmatch, in_to_exists, engine_condition_pushdown, index_condition_pushdown, index_merge, index_merge_intersection, index_merge_sort_intersection, index_merge_sort_union, index_merge_union, join_cache_bka, join_cache_hashed, join_cache_incremental, loosescan, materialization, mrr, mrr_cost_based, mrr_sort_keys, optimize_join_buffer_size, outer_join_with_cache, partial_match_rowid_merge, partial_match_table_scan, semijoin, semijoin_with_cache, subquery_cache, table_elimination, extended_keys } and val is one of {on, off, default} --performance-schema Enable the performance schema. --performance-schema-events-waits-history-long-size=# Number of rows in EVENTS_WAITS_HISTORY_LONG. --performance-schema-events-waits-history-size=# Number of rows per thread in EVENTS_WAITS_HISTORY. --performance-schema-max-cond-classes=# Maximum number of condition instruments. --performance-schema-max-cond-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented condition objects. --performance-schema-max-file-classes=# Maximum number of file instruments. --performance-schema-max-file-handles=# Maximum number of opened instrumented files. --performance-schema-max-file-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented files. --performance-schema-max-mutex-classes=# Maximum number of mutex instruments. --performance-schema-max-mutex-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented MUTEX objects. --performance-schema-max-rwlock-classes=# Maximum number of rwlock instruments. --performance-schema-max-rwlock-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented RWLOCK objects. --performance-schema-max-table-handles=# Maximum number of opened instrumented tables. --performance-schema-max-table-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented tables. --performance-schema-max-thread-classes=# Maximum number of thread instruments. --performance-schema-max-thread-instances=# Maximum number of instrumented threads. --pid-file=name Pid file used by safe_mysqld --plugin-dir=name Directory for plugins --plugin-load=name Semicolon-separated list of plugins to load, where each plugin is specified as ether a plugin_name=library_file pair or only a library_file. If the latter case, all plugins from a given library_file will be loaded. --plugin-maturity=name The lowest desirable plugin maturity (unknown, experimental, alpha, beta, gamma, or stable). Plugins less mature than that will not be installed or loaded. -P, --port=# Port number to use for connection or 0 to default to, my.cnf, $MYSQL_TCP_PORT, /etc/services, built-in default (3306), whatever comes first --port-open-timeout=# Maximum time in seconds to wait for the port to become free. (Default: No wait). --preload-buffer-size=# The size of the buffer that is allocated when preloading indexes --profiling-history-size=# Limit of query profiling memory --progress-report-time=# Seconds between sending progress reports to the client for time-consuming statements. Set to 0 to disable progress reporting. --query-alloc-block-size=# Allocation block size for query parsing and execution --query-cache-limit=# Don't cache results that are bigger than this --query-cache-min-res-unit=# The minimum size for blocks allocated by the query cache --query-cache-size=# The memory allocated to store results from old queries --query-cache-strip-comments Strip all comments from a query before storing it in the query cache --query-cache-type=name OFF = Don't cache or retrieve results. ON = Cache all results except SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE ... queries. DEMAND = Cache only SELECT SQL_CACHE ... queries --query-cache-wlock-invalidate Invalidate queries in query cache on LOCK for write --query-prealloc-size=# Persistent buffer for query parsing and execution --range-alloc-block-size=# Allocation block size for storing ranges during optimization --read-buffer-size=# Each thread that does a sequential scan allocates a buffer of this size for each table it scans. If you do many sequential scans, you may want to increase this value --read-only Make all non-temporary tables read-only, with the exception for replication (slave) threads and users with the SUPER privilege --read-rnd-buffer-size=# When reading rows in sorted order after a sort, the rows are read through this buffer to avoid a disk seeks --relay-log=name The location and name to use for relay logs --relay-log-index=name The location and name to use for the file that keeps a list of the last relay logs --relay-log-info-file=name The location and name of the file that remembers where the SQL replication thread is in the relay logs --relay-log-purge if disabled - do not purge relay logs. if enabled - purge them as soon as they are no more needed (Defaults to on; use --skip-relay-log-purge to disable.) --relay-log-recovery Enables automatic relay log recovery right after the database startup, which means that the IO Thread starts re-fetching from the master right after the last transaction processed --relay-log-space-limit=# Maximum space to use for all relay logs --replicate-annotate-row-events Tells the slave to write annotate rows events recieved from the master to its own binary log. Ignored if log_slave_updates is not set --replicate-do-db=name Tells the slave thread to restrict replication to the specified database. To specify more than one database, use the directive multiple times, once for each database. Note that this will only work if you do not use cross-database queries such as UPDATE some_db.some_table SET foo='bar' while having selected a different or no database. If you need cross database updates to work, make sure you have 3.23.28 or later, and use replicate-wild-do-table=db_name.%. --replicate-do-table=name Tells the slave thread to restrict replication to the specified table. To specify more than one table, use the directive multiple times, once for each table. This will work for cross-database updates, in contrast to replicate-do-db. --replicate-events-marked-for-skip=name Whether the slave should replicate events that were created with @@skip_replication=1 on the master. Default REPLICATE (no events are skipped). Other values are FILTER_ON_SLAVE (events will be sent by the master but ignored by the slave) and FILTER_ON_MASTER (events marked with @@skip_replication=1 will be filtered on the master and never be sent to the slave). --replicate-ignore-db=name Tells the slave thread to not replicate to the specified database. To specify more than one database to ignore, use the directive multiple times, once for each database. This option will not work if you use cross database updates. If you need cross database updates to work, make sure you have 3.23.28 or later, and use replicate-wild-ignore-table=db_name.%. --replicate-ignore-table=name Tells the slave thread to not replicate to the specified table. To specify more than one table to ignore, use the directive multiple times, once for each table. This will work for cross-database updates, in contrast to replicate-ignore-db. --replicate-rewrite-db=name Updates to a database with a different name than the original. Example: replicate-rewrite-db=master_db_name->slave_db_name. --replicate-same-server-id In replication, if set to 1, do not skip events having our server id. Default value is 0 (to break infinite loops in circular replication). Can't be set to 1 if --log-slave-updates is used. --replicate-wild-do-table=name Tells the slave thread to restrict replication to the tables that match the specified wildcard pattern. To specify more than one table, use the directive multiple times, once for each table. This will work for cross-database updates. Example: replicate-wild-do-table=foo%.bar% will replicate only updates to tables in all databases that start with foo and whose table names start with bar. --replicate-wild-ignore-table=name Tells the slave thread to not replicate to the tables that match the given wildcard pattern. To specify more than one table to ignore, use the directive multiple times, once for each table. This will work for cross-database updates. Example: replicate-wild-ignore-table=foo%.bar% will not do updates to tables in databases that start with foo and whose table names start with bar. --report-host=name Hostname or IP of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration. Will appear in the output of SHOW SLAVE HOSTS. Leave unset if you do not want the slave to register itself with the master. Note that it is not sufficient for the master to simply read the IP of the slave off the socket once the slave connects. Due to NAT and other routing issues, that IP may not be valid for connecting to the slave from the master or other hosts --report-password=name The account password of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration --report-port=# Port for connecting to slave reported to the master during slave registration. Set it only if the slave is listening on a non-default port or if you have a special tunnel from the master or other clients to the slave. If not sure, leave this option unset --report-user=name The account user name of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration --rowid-merge-buff-size=# The size of the buffers used [NOT] IN evaluation via partial matching --rpl-recovery-rank=# Unused, will be removed --safe-mode Skip some optimize stages (for testing). Deprecated. --safe-user-create Don't allow new user creation by the user who has no write privileges to the mysql.user table. --secure-auth Disallow authentication for accounts that have old (pre-4.1) passwords --secure-file-priv=name Limit LOAD DATA, SELECT ... OUTFILE, and LOAD_FILE() to files within specified directory --server-id=# Uniquely identifies the server instance in the community of replication partners --show-slave-auth-info Show user and password in SHOW SLAVE HOSTS on this master. --skip-bdb Deprecated option; Exist only for compatiblity with old my.cnf files --skip-grant-tables Start without grant tables. This gives all users FULL ACCESS to all tables. --skip-host-cache Don't cache host names. --skip-name-resolve Don't resolve hostnames. All hostnames are IP's or 'localhost'. --skip-networking Don't allow connection with TCP/IP --skip-show-database Don't allow 'SHOW DATABASE' commands --skip-slave-start If set, slave is not autostarted. --skip-thread-priority Don't give threads different priorities. This option is deprecated because it has no effect; the implied behavior is already the default. --slave-compressed-protocol Use compression on master/slave protocol --slave-exec-mode=name Modes for how replication events should be executed. Legal values are STRICT (default) and IDEMPOTENT. In IDEMPOTENT mode, replication will not stop for operations that are idempotent. In STRICT mode, replication will stop on any unexpected difference between the master and the slave --slave-load-tmpdir=name The location where the slave should put its temporary files when replicating a LOAD DATA INFILE command --slave-max-allowed-packet=# The maximum packet length to sent successfully from the master to slave. --slave-net-timeout=# Number of seconds to wait for more data from any master/slave connection before aborting the read --slave-skip-errors=name Tells the slave thread to continue replication when a query event returns an error from the provided list --slave-sql-verify-checksum Force checksum verification of replication events after reading them from relay log. Note: Events are always checksum-verified by slave on receiving them from the network before writing them to the relay log (Defaults to on; use --skip-slave-sql-verify-checksum to disable.) --slave-transaction-retries=# Number of times the slave SQL thread will retry a transaction in case it failed with a deadlock or elapsed lock wait timeout, before giving up and stopping --slave-type-conversions=name Set of slave type conversions that are enabled. Legal values are: ALL_LOSSY to enable lossy conversions and ALL_NON_LOSSY to enable non-lossy conversions. If the variable is assigned the empty set, no conversions are allowed and it is expected that the types match exactly. --slow-launch-time=# If creating the thread takes longer than this value (in seconds), the Slow_launch_threads counter will be incremented --slow-query-log Log slow queries to a table or log file. Defaults logging to a file 'hostname'-slow.log or a table mysql.slow_log if --log-output=TABLE is used. Must be enabled to activate other slow log options --slow-query-log-file=name Log slow queries to given log file. Defaults logging to 'hostname'-slow.log. Must be enabled to activate other slow log options --socket=name Socket file to use for connection --sort-buffer-size=# Each thread that needs to do a sort allocates a buffer of this size --sql-mode=name Syntax: sql-mode=mode[,mode[,mode...]]. See the manual for the complete list of valid sql modes --stack-trace Print a symbolic stack trace on failure (Defaults to on; use --skip-stack-trace to disable.) --stored-program-cache=# The soft upper limit for number of cached stored routines for one connection. -s, --symbolic-links Enable symbolic link support. --sync-binlog=# Synchronously flush binary log to disk after every #th event. Use 0 (default) to disable synchronous flushing --sync-frm Sync .frm files to disk on creation (Defaults to on; use --skip-sync-frm to disable.) --sync-master-info=# Synchronously flush master info to disk after every #th event. Use 0 (default) to disable synchronous flushing --sync-relay-log=# Synchronously flush relay log to disk after every #th event. Use 0 (default) to disable synchronous flushing --sync-relay-log-info=# Synchronously flush relay log info to disk after every #th transaction. Use 0 (default) to disable synchronous flushing --sysdate-is-now Non-default option to alias SYSDATE() to NOW() to make it safe-replicable. Since 5.0, SYSDATE() returns a `dynamic' value different for different invocations, even within the same statement. --table-cache=# Deprecated; use --table-open-cache instead. --table-definition-cache=# The number of cached table definitions --table-open-cache=# The number of cached open tables --tc-heuristic-recover=name Decision to use in heuristic recover process. Possible values are COMMIT or ROLLBACK. --thread-cache-size=# How many threads we should keep in a cache for reuse --thread-stack=# The stack size for each thread --time-format=name The TIME format (ignored) --timed-mutexes Specify whether to time mutexes (only InnoDB mutexes are currently supported) --tmp-table-size=# If an internal in-memory temporary table exceeds this size, MySQL will automatically convert it to an on-disk MyISAM or Aria table -t, --tmpdir=name Path for temporary files. Several paths may be specified, separated by a colon (:), in this case they are used in a round-robin fashion --transaction-alloc-block-size=# Allocation block size for transactions to be stored in binary log --transaction-isolation=name Default transaction isolation level. --transaction-prealloc-size=# Persistent buffer for transactions to be stored in binary log --updatable-views-with-limit=name YES = Don't issue an error message (warning only) if a VIEW without presence of a key of the underlying table is used in queries with a LIMIT clause for updating. NO = Prohibit update of a VIEW, which does not contain a key of the underlying table and the query uses a LIMIT clause (usually get from GUI tools) --use-stat-tables=name Specifies how to use system statistics tables. Possible values are NEVER, COMPLEMENTARY, PREVERABLY -u, --user=name Run mysqld daemon as user. --userstat Enables statistics gathering for USER_STATISTICS, CLIENT_STATISTICS, INDEX_STATISTICS and TABLE_STATISTICS tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA -v, --verbose Used with --help option for detailed help. -V, --version Output version information and exit. --wait-timeout=# The number of seconds the server waits for activity on a connection before closing it Variables (--variable-name=value) allow-suspicious-udfs FALSE auto-increment-increment 1 auto-increment-offset 1 autocommit TRUE automatic-sp-privileges TRUE back-log 50 big-tables FALSE bind-address (No default value) binlog-annotate-row-events FALSE binlog-cache-size 32768 binlog-checksum NONE binlog-direct-non-transactional-updates FALSE binlog-format STATEMENT binlog-optimize-thread-scheduling TRUE binlog-row-event-max-size 1024 binlog-stmt-cache-size 32768 bulk-insert-buffer-size 8388608 character-set-client-handshake TRUE character-set-filesystem binary character-set-server latin1 character-sets-dir MYSQL_CHARSETSDIR/ chroot (No default value) collation-server latin1_swedish_ci completion-type NO_CHAIN concurrent-insert AUTO connect-timeout 10 console FALSE date-format %Y-%m-%d datetime-format %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s deadlock-search-depth-long 15 deadlock-search-depth-short 4 deadlock-timeout-long 50000000 deadlock-timeout-short 10000 default-storage-engine myisam default-time-zone (No default value) default-week-format 0 delay-key-write ON delayed-insert-limit 100 delayed-insert-timeout 300 delayed-queue-size 1000 div-precision-increment 4 engine-condition-pushdown FALSE event-scheduler OFF expensive-subquery-limit 100 expire-logs-days 0 external-locking FALSE extra-max-connections 1 extra-port 0 flush FALSE flush-time 0 ft-boolean-syntax + -><()~*:""&| ft-max-word-len 84 ft-min-word-len 4 ft-query-expansion-limit 20 ft-stopword-file (No default value) gdb FALSE general-log FALSE group-concat-max-len 1024 help TRUE ignore-builtin-innodb FALSE ignore-db-dirs init-connect init-file (No default value) init-rpl-role MASTER init-slave interactive-timeout 28800 join-buffer-size 131072 join-buffer-space-limit 2097152 join-cache-level 2 keep-files-on-create FALSE key-buffer-size 134217728 key-cache-age-threshold 300 key-cache-block-size 1024 key-cache-division-limit 100 key-cache-segments 0 large-pages FALSE lc-messages en_US lc-messages-dir MYSQL_SHAREDIR/ lc-time-names en_US local-infile TRUE lock-wait-timeout 31536000 log-bin (No default value) log-bin-index (No default value) log-bin-trust-function-creators FALSE log-error log-isam myisam.log log-output FILE log-queries-not-using-indexes FALSE log-short-format FALSE log-slave-updates FALSE log-slow-admin-statements FALSE log-slow-filter admin,filesort,filesort_on_disk,full_join,full_scan,query_cache,query_cache_miss,tmp_table,tmp_table_on_disk log-slow-rate-limit 1 log-slow-slave-statements FALSE log-slow-verbosity log-tc tc.log log-tc-size 24576 log-warnings 1 long-query-time 10 low-priority-updates FALSE lower-case-table-names 1 master-info-file master.info master-retry-count 86400 master-verify-checksum FALSE max-allowed-packet 1048576 max-binlog-cache-size 18446744073709547520 max-binlog-size 1073741824 max-binlog-stmt-cache-size 18446744073709547520 max-connect-errors 10 max-connections 151 max-delayed-threads 20 max-error-count 64 max-heap-table-size 16777216 max-join-size 18446744073709551615 max-length-for-sort-data 1024 max-long-data-size 1048576 max-prepared-stmt-count 16382 max-relay-log-size 1073741824 max-seeks-for-key 18446744073709551615 max-sort-length 1024 max-sp-recursion-depth 0 max-tmp-tables 32 max-user-connections 0 max-write-lock-count 18446744073709551615 memlock FALSE metadata-locks-cache-size 1024 min-examined-row-limit 0 mrr-buffer-size 262144 multi-range-count 256 myisam-block-size 1024 myisam-data-pointer-size 6 myisam-max-sort-file-size 9223372036853727232 myisam-mmap-size 18446744073709551615 myisam-recover-options DEFAULT myisam-repair-threads 1 myisam-sort-buffer-size 8388608 myisam-stats-method nulls_unequal myisam-use-mmap FALSE net-buffer-length 16384 net-read-timeout 30 net-retry-count 10 net-write-timeout 60 old FALSE old-alter-table FALSE old-passwords FALSE old-style-user-limits FALSE optimizer-prune-level 1 optimizer-search-depth 62 optimizer-switch index_merge=on,index_merge_union=on,index_merge_sort_union=on,index_merge_intersection=on,index_merge_sort_intersection=off,engine_condition_pushdown=off,index_condition_pushdown=on,derived_merge=on,derived_with_keys=on,firstmatch=on,loosescan=on,materialization=on,in_to_exists=on,semijoin=on,partial_match_rowid_merge=on,partial_match_table_scan=on,subquery_cache=on,mrr=off,mrr_cost_based=off,mrr_sort_keys=off,outer_join_with_cache=on,semijoin_with_cache=on,join_cache_incremental=on,join_cache_hashed=on,join_cache_bka=on,optimize_join_buffer_size=off,table_elimination=on performance-schema FALSE performance-schema-events-waits-history-long-size 10000 performance-schema-events-waits-history-size 10 performance-schema-max-cond-classes 80 performance-schema-max-cond-instances 1000 performance-schema-max-file-classes 50 performance-schema-max-file-handles 32768 performance-schema-max-file-instances 10000 performance-schema-max-mutex-classes 200 performance-schema-max-mutex-instances 1000000 performance-schema-max-rwlock-classes 30 performance-schema-max-rwlock-instances 1000000 performance-schema-max-table-handles 100000 performance-schema-max-table-instances 50000 performance-schema-max-thread-classes 50 performance-schema-max-thread-instances 1000 plugin-load (No default value) plugin-maturity unknown port 3306 port-open-timeout 0 preload-buffer-size 32768 profiling-history-size 15 progress-report-time 56 query-alloc-block-size 8192 query-cache-limit 1048576 query-cache-min-res-unit 4096 query-cache-size 0 query-cache-strip-comments FALSE query-cache-type ON query-cache-wlock-invalidate FALSE query-prealloc-size 8192 range-alloc-block-size 4096 read-buffer-size 131072 read-only FALSE read-rnd-buffer-size 262144 relay-log (No default value) relay-log-index (No default value) relay-log-info-file relay-log.info relay-log-purge TRUE relay-log-recovery FALSE relay-log-space-limit 0 replicate-annotate-row-events FALSE replicate-events-marked-for-skip replicate replicate-same-server-id FALSE report-host (No default value) report-password (No default value) report-port 0 report-user (No default value) rowid-merge-buff-size 8388608 rpl-recovery-rank 0 safe-user-create FALSE secure-auth FALSE secure-file-priv (No default value) server-id 0 show-slave-auth-info FALSE skip-grant-tables TRUE skip-name-resolve FALSE skip-networking FALSE skip-show-database FALSE skip-slave-start FALSE slave-compressed-protocol FALSE slave-exec-mode STRICT slave-max-allowed-packet 1073741824 slave-net-timeout 3600 slave-skip-errors (No default value) slave-sql-verify-checksum TRUE slave-transaction-retries 10 slave-type-conversions slow-launch-time 2 slow-query-log FALSE sort-buffer-size 2097152 sql-mode stack-trace TRUE stored-program-cache 256 symbolic-links FALSE sync-binlog 0 sync-frm FALSE sync-master-info 0 sync-relay-log 0 sync-relay-log-info 0 sysdate-is-now FALSE table-cache 400 table-definition-cache 400 table-open-cache 400 tc-heuristic-recover COMMIT thread-cache-size 0 thread-stack 294912 time-format %H:%i:%s timed-mutexes FALSE tmp-table-size 16777216 transaction-alloc-block-size 8192 transaction-isolation REPEATABLE-READ transaction-prealloc-size 4096 updatable-views-with-limit YES use-stat-tables NEVER userstat FALSE verbose TRUE wait-timeout 28800 To see what values a running MySQL server is using, type 'mysqladmin variables' instead of 'mysqld --verbose --help'.