On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:36 AM, <mik...@qualityadvantages.com> wrote: > Hello mysql, > > I would like to run a PHP script to perform a CRON Database backup to > avoid passing database credentials to the CRON process. Does this make > sense?
I'm not sure what your question about this is, but: if you don't want to pass credentials, use --defaults-file. Specify the path to a defaults file in which you have the following: [mysqldump] user=username pass=secretpassword -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
