User visible change - breaks some environments, per Paul DuBois. Reverting in 4.1 and 5.0.

mysys/default.c

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ const char *default_directories[]= {
 "sys:/etc/",
 #else
 "/etc/",
-"/etc/mysql/",
 #endif
 #ifdef DATADIR
 DATADIR,

scripts/mysqld_multi.sh

@@ -437,14 +437,6 @@ sub find_groups
     {
       $data[$i] = $line;
     }
-    if (-f "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" && -r "/etc/mysql/my.cnf")
-    {
-      open(MY_CNF, "</etc/mysql/my.cnf") && (@tmp=<MY_CNF>) && close(MY_CNF);
-    }
-    for (; ($line = shift @tmp); $i++)
-    {
-      $data[$i] = $line;
-    }
     if (-f "$homedir/.my.cnf" && -r "$homedir/.my.cnf")
     {
       open(MY_CNF, "<$homedir/.my.cnf") && (@tmp=<MY_CNF>) && close(MY_CNF);