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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Cron
Jim wrote:
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> I decided that one way to back up a database is to write a bash script to run
> mysqldump. I know that I can put the script in /etc/cron.weekly and have it
> execute every week. My question is what user will the cron job run as?
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Irrelevant to mysql who is running the script. You still have to
authenticate to the database using the application ID.

George
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