I posted the message below on 1/15/05 and haven't received a reply yet. Should I be asking this question on a different list? Thank you. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Margaret Gillon, IS Dept., Chromalloy Los Angeles, ext. 297 ----- Forwarded by Margaret Gillon/CLA/Chromalloy on 01/27/2005 08:38 AM ----- Margaret Gillon/CLA/Chroma lloy To pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/15/2005 12:14 cc PM Subject pg_dump shell script with ~/.pgpass I need to create a shell script for cron.daily to run that will do pg_dump for my database. I am using Redhat 9 and Postgresql v7.3.4. Currently when I run the dump manually the command I use is #pg_dump -u -C -D -f /tmp/owl.sql owl What should the command look like using ~/.pgpass ? My other question... Is cron.daily is being run by root? If so would I need to put the .pgpass file in root's home directory? I only have two postgresql users right now, myself and postgres. On the redhat server I have only two users, myself and root, there is no user postgres. TIA. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Margaret Gillon, IS Dept., Chromalloy Los Angeles, ext. 297 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly