Problem with my.cnf file

[anil alapati]

Recently, By mistake changed the ownership of my.cnf file. Later realized it changed the owner as mysql to it. but the service was not yet started.Hence changed it to 777 mode and now it was able to start the mysql service.

But getting the warning message as follows.

Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored


and the parameters mentioned in it are not getting affected to mysql server.seems it was not using the cnf file.

[anil@devbox ~]$ mysql --print-defaults
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
mysql would have been started with the following arguments:

[anil@devbox ~]$

Please help me solving this issue...