# edward@xxxxxxxxxx / 2006-10-23 16:34:16 +0100:
> > >>It appears that it could be because the user that runs the scripts is
> > >>not allowed to. When I run them on the commandline, I run them as the
> > >>root user.
that's very simple to check (man su)
> > yes I know of CRONtabs but wont this still leave us with the user
> > permission of running mysqldump? because essentially it will still be a
> > PHP file to run the shell command to create the dump file?
Are you concerned about what user it runs as or what language
it's written in?
> No, cron will typically run as root. You don't need to involve PHP.
How are those two things connected at all in the first place?
> It looks to me as if you are trying to use web scripting (PHP) to do the
> sysadmin on your server, for which other methods are more suitable.
Those would be? What makes PHP unsuitable for non-web programming?
"Don't write the SMTP server in C, that's only for text editors."
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