How to find out the location of currently used MySQL configuration file in linux
If you are using terminal just type the following:
locate my.cnf
mysqld --help --verbose will find only location of default configuration file. What if you use 2 MySQL instances on the same server? It's not going to help.
Good article about figuring it out:
"How to find MySQL configuration file?"
The information you want can be found by running
mysql --help
or
mysqld --help --verbose
I tried this command on my machine:
mysql --help | grep "Default options" -A 1
And it printed out:
Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /usr/local/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf
See if that works for you.