[wplug] cron job whose action is promted?

[Bill Moran]

Russ Schneider <russ at sugapablo.com> wrote:

> What can you do if you want to do a cron job where the command is 
> prompted?
> 
> Specifically, I want to set up a mysqldump as a cron job, but if I do a 
> mysqldump, I get prompted for a password.  
> 
> Anything I can do to get the cron job to respond to the prompt?  (I know, 
> wierd question.)

Not the answer to your question, but probably the answer to your problem:

mysqldump has a --password= switch that allows you to provide the
password on the command line ... no prompting.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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