Determine Configured Location of MySQL's data directory OR all loaded *.cfn Locations

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Published on 2010-04-07T17:07:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 17:13 UTC
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I'm not a sys-admin, but sometimes I play one at work.

I've inherited a virtual server that had MySQL installed from source. I'm gathering as much information about the install as I can (original people who installed it are, of course, not a resource).

How can I find

The default/current location of the MySQL binary files (often stored in a directory named data?)
Any default or custom loaded cnf files?

Looking for solutions that are a bit more sophisticated than a find / -iname '*.cnf' :)

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