[Zachery]

Originally Posted by lasto

in root in etc folder all i see is my.cnf so i download that to edit it and here is the contents

[client]
port=3306

nothing in there to edit - so where to now

[mysqld]  
max_connections = 500  
key_buffer = 16M  
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M  
join_buffer_size = 1M  
read_buffer_size = 1M  
sort_buffer_size = 2M  
table_cache = 1024  
thread_cache_size = 64  
wait_timeout = 1800  
connect_timeout = 10  
max_allowed_packet = 16M  
max_connect_errors = 10  
query_cache_limit = 1M  
query_cache_size = 32M  
query_cache_type = 1  
skip-innodb  

[client]
port=3306  

[mysqld_safe]   
open_files_limit = 8192  
  
[mysqldump]  
quick  
max_allowed_packet = 16M  
  
[myisamchk]   
key_buffer = 64M   
sort_buffer = 64M  
read_buffer = 16M  
write_buffer = 16M

Replace my above code with what you have in there and restart mysql