Comment 1 for bug 1167794

Perhaps the easiest solution would be adding version specific [mysqld] sections to my.cnf to maintain backwards compatibility regardless of the version, e.g.:

[mysqld-5.0]
log = ...

[mysqld-5.5]
general-log = ON
general-log-file = /home/psce/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_10/master/data/msandbox.log

and so on...