Do you want to provide (contribute) a patch which we could apply? It would probably go much faster this way.

Hi Elena,
Thanks for replying!

The patch was provided by one of the aforementioned task's commentators
http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=17400&bug_id=29327
I haven't tested it but it looks like a simplest one, so should work.
It adds just few more lines to cover both RedHat and Debian include paths (not sure about Debian though cause I am CentOS user)

The only thing is that it's strictly searching under /etc/mysql.d/ path for *.cnf (in CentOS). (Maybe someone wants to have it under a different dir?)
So probably looking for includedir in my.cnf is desirable. But I would stay with default as is, after all it's FHS compliant

I don't mind if this patch will be included since that's the dir path I anyway planned to use and obviously my files would have *.cnf extension

Thanks!

p.s. found many reports about mysqld_multi include problem here and there, even on Percona forums
I hope MariaDB can finally make it happen!

It doesn't look like a real fix for the non-working directive problem, does it?
Maybe I'm missing something, I'll leave it to serg to decide if it's a proper patch and whether it can be included.

Yes, you are right, it doesn't look like the fix. more than that it doesn't work.
I am including patch we wrote (and that works)

What it does:

• scans all found cnf files for !includedir
• scans for *.cnf in !includedir directory
• adds those files to previously found my.cnf (.my.cnf) files
• passes all files to find_groups

note:

• it doesn't look for more !includedir directives in files found
• it doesn't parse !include (for single files)

Hope it helps and can be polished/included and finally released

Thanks!