Re: mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-21 Thread Mikel King
Rory, Take a look at the shell scripts for mysqlbackup here http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=mysqlbackup It will explain things quite nicely. Cheers, m! ROry O'Connor wrote: >this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron >(like with a shell scr

Re: mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-20 Thread Henning Sprang
Am 20 Dec 2001 03:35:37 -0600 schrieb ROry O'Connor: > this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron >(like with a shell script) i can't because mysqldump utility stops to ask for a >password. how can I either embed the password or set up mysqldump to not ask

RE: mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-20 Thread Matthew Smith
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mysqldump - basic question this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron (like with a shell script) i can't because mysqldump utility stops to ask for a password. how can I either embed the password or set up mysqldump to not ask

mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-20 Thread ROry O'Connor
this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron (like with a shell script) i can't because mysqldump utility stops to ask for a password. how can I either embed the password or set up mysqldump to not ask for one if, for instance, root is running the shell scr