[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #12112: Error in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MySQL_Time_Zone_Tables

[R. G. Newbury]

On 08/04/14 09:09 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:30 AM, <noreply at mythtv.org

>
> While what you show will work, so would:
> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root
> -p"<yourpassword>" mysql
>
> or
>
> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p mysql
>
> which would prompt for the password (although I think that method is
> being deprecated?). Like Perl, there is more than one way to do it.
>

I don;t why that last method should be deprecated. When doing it that 
way, the password is not shown in clear text on the screen.

Not much of deal breaker for most of us, but something to remember in 
many different scenarios.

Geoff

-- 
              R. Geoffrey Newbury