Comment 2 for bug 342578

Hrm... weird enough, this is what my strace tells me (a symlink from /etc/my.cnf to /etc/mysql/my.cnf exists):

$ strace mysqldump 2>&1 | grep my.cnf
stat64("/etc/my.cnf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3959, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/my.cnf", O_RDONLY) = 3
stat64("/home/tkeller/.my.cnf", 0xbf8ccdb4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/local/Zend/Core/etc/my.cnf", 0xbf8ccdb4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

I have no idea why it looks for /usr/local/Zend/... (this directory path doesn't exist entirely), but if you say it works for you, its probably some weird local issue.