In message <20050106031903.GA23889 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au> on Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:19:04AM +0800, James Devenish wrote: > /path/to/mysql --defaults-extra-file=/path/to/custom.my.cnf --batch Correction: you may have to use --defaults-file instead of --defaults-extra-file.