Cron

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:03:59 -0500


Jim wrote:
> 
> 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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