sudo updatedb && locate my.cnf
if you are having trouble with locate
as root: find / -name my.cnf
how did you install mysql? with yum?
I am running Centos 6.5. When I went to install MySQL-server.X86_64 5.6.12-2.el6, it put my.cnf in /usr. /usr/my.cnf ? What the hell is my.cnf doing in /usr ?
I found it using find / -iname my.cnf -print