[wplug] cron job whose action is promted?
Zachary Uram
netrek at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 22:50:24 EST 2004
hi russ,
i know Expect can handle prompts not sure if it can run in cron.
zach
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:13:27 -0500 (EST), 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.)
>
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