I think we are daling with a windows user, who are not that familiar with a command prompt. Correct me if i'm wrong. How to get to a point where you would be able to execute a mysqldump, will depend on what OS you are running, and how you installed MySQL.
On Tue, July 24, 2007 04:41, Carlos Proal wrote: > > Can you email us the complete command and the error ? > > Carlos > > > Red Hope wrote: >> Well, that went over my head. :) I understand what >> you're telling me, how to get there, but not how to do >> it. bleh. >> >> When I start up MySQL Command Line Client, I'm always >> prompted at "mysql>". So I told it to switch from that >> prompt to "shell>" prompt. It always starts up in >> "mysql>" prompt. Once I'm in shell, I tried the dump >> procedure and it kept saying it couldn't connect. So I >> checked what databases it had, it shows them. I can't >> even switch to a database because of no connection. >> I'm not exactly sure why there's no 'connection' at >> all. >> >> Thanks for trying so hard, Carlos! >> Lillian >> > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Later Mogens Melander +45 40 85 71 38 +66 870 133 224 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
