MysQl Configuration

On my Fedora Core 4 Dedicated Server i run:

# MySQL: 4.1.20
# Version protocoll: 10
# Server: Localhost via UNIX socket

This is my problem, the MaxConnection parameter by default is setup to 100 max user connections i want to adjust the limit to a resonable value because if the users go over the limit the MySQL crash and i must restart the server because the entire system don't work.... (probably this is a bug of MySQL 4.1.2 ) but i don't know because i'm not an expert user....

I spoke with Godaddy Sys Admin and they said: "...you must modify the my.cnf file and add:

Code:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1
set-variable = max_connections = (the number that you want)

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
Ok i have modified this by adding 1000, but with this new variable the MySQL don't start.....