[mythtv-users] Setting up a new backend from scratch

[Simon Hobson]

Thomas Boehm wrote:

>  > The should no space between the -p and the mysql password. There must be
>>  a space after the -u user bit. And it is clearly confusing to use the
>>  generic name of the *database* as the password.
>
>The last argument in the mysql command is the name of the database you
>want to log in. If no password is given after -p (without space as you
>rightly pointed out), it will prompt for it.

It's probably less confusion (to novice users) to use the long form :
   mysql --user=username -password=userpassword --database=databasename ...
More typing but more likely to be understood first time - as the user 
gets more confident, they can switch to short options if they wish.

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