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Cron job not running / not successful?

I have a couple of cron jobs set up to maintain a local copy of a remote database. The first one downloads the latest version of the database from the remote machine, which runs every day and is ...
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How to use a password as an external variable in shell?

I have this MySQL backup script that I use to back up MySQL databases. Very useful, and it runs on fixed intervals using a cron. However, I need somehow provide this script with the MySQL password. ...
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Multiple ssh sessions in single command

I'm trying to copy a database from one server to another. I tried using the following command and it's getting tied up on entering the ssh passwords. If I put in one server's password, it complains ...
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Selinux is denying access to mysqld

I have a script that dumps a mysql database. It then compresses the file and this gets stored in my home folder by using cron. The problem is I seem to be getting an error message. mysqldump: ...