my.cnf not working?

[Fred.]

Hello,

A month ago i made the file my.cnf, it's in /etc/my.cnf and it works.
All the settings are correct.

When i edit one of the settings now, it doesn't change.

I try to change the wait timeout from 20 to 80, when i make the changes, i still see wait timeout 20 in phpmyadmin. and in my.cnf it's 80
Because every night i have MySQL server has gone away errors.

When i do locate my.cnf there are diffirent my.cnf files, and they have the same values in it.

/etc/my.cnf
/root/etc/my.cnf
/usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf

OS = Centos 5.0
MySQL 5.1.39

I don't now it anymore, any thoughts?

 

[scsi]

The /etc/my.cnf is the only one that counts.

 

[Fred.]

Solved

it works now.

I always did cd etc, and nano my.cnf
and now i dit nano /etc/my.cnf and i saw other values.

my fault. (linux newbie)

Thanks