Package: mytop Version: 1.4-1 Severity: minor The manpage for mytop (`man mytop`) lists an option "-prompt" to "Specify if you want to be prompted to type in your database password." When using the command as described, it is interpreted as the "-p" option with "rompt" as a following argument. The correct flag is "--prompt", which exhibits the expected behavior. The man page should be updated to reflect the option is "--prompt" instead of "-prompt".
Here is a transcript: $ mytop -prompt Cannot connect to MySQL server. Please check the: * database you specified "test" (default is "test") * username you specified "root" (default is "root") * password you specified "rompt" (default is "") * hostname you specified "localhost" (default is "localhost") * port you specified "3306" (default is 3306) * socket you specified "" (default is "") The options my be specified on the command-line or in a ~/.mytop config file. See the manual (perldoc mytop) for details. Here's the exact error from DBI. It might help you debug: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) $ mytop --prompt Password: MySQL on localhost (5.0.32-Debian_3-log) up 8+00:09:40 [09:09:26] Queries: 171.0 qps: 0 Slow: 0.0 Se/In/Up/De(%): 00/00/00/00 [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]