This is the default example configuration of mysql.cnf provided by MySQL. This config file was generated by MySQL running on Ubuntu 16.04.
It is located under: /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf
#
# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# You can copy this to one of:
# - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options,
# - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options.
#
# One can use all long options that the program supports.
# Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with
# --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
#
# For explanations see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html
#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
# The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
!includedir /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/
Download the raw file with wget or curl
wget -O mysql.cnf.example http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/mysql/ubuntu16.04/etc/mysql/mysql.cnf
curl http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/mysql/ubuntu16.04/etc/mysql/mysql.cnf > mysql.cnf.example
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