in the postrotate section, you have to add the user and password parameters 
to mysqladmin:
        mysqladmin -u someuser --password=somepassword flush-logs

s.m.


Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2002 19:23 schrieben Sie:
> Hello there!
> <nl><nl>
>
> I have added recently administrative user to mysql database:
> <nl><nl>
>
> #mysqladmin -u root password someposword
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>
> since then I'm getting every day such e-mail from logrotate demon:
> <nl><nl>
>
> Subject:
> errors rotating logs
> Message:
> errors occured while rotating /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log
> <nl><nl>
>
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
> error running postrotate script
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>
> My rogrotate demon have such configuration file for mysql:
> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log {
> <nl>        rotate 3
> <nl>        daily
> <nl>        compress
> <nl>    postrotate
> <nl>        mysqladmin flush-logs
> <nl>    endscript
> }
> <nl><nl>
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
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