Mysqld freezes when init file is used in my.cnf

Question

I try to do some things every time mysqld (version 5.1.4) starts / restarts on Fedora14.
I put the following line in my.cnf:
INIT file = / etc. /mysqlinit.sql
I tried various requests in the file, even leaving the file empty.
MySQL does not start ... I get a timeout error trying to start MySQL Daemon.
I tried to include the path in quotation marks and secured the file permissions the same as my.cnf.
I tried moving the file.
Nothing in mysqld logs or messages helps.
I wonder if selinux should be disabled. Did I miss something?

Answer 1

change the owner and group of the /etc/mysqlinit.sql(and dirs) file to match one mysqld (deamon, not the configuration file), and try again, enable error_log to see the result of the error.