Re: unable to get mysqldump to work

[Blake Nouribekian]

That didnt seem to work for me. Even if I do something simple like how the manual shows for mysqldump it doesnt work. If you dont specify a dir for the file then where does it go?

mysqldump --all-databases > all_databases.sql


back to the example you gave, when i do this

#mysqldump -uroot -ppassword dbname > /var/dump/dump.file

it goes to the next line without doing anything because there is no ";"
then the next line

# cat /var/dump/dump.file

also doesn nothing for the same reason and end result there is no file....what is wrong?