Hello Gordon, On Mon, 03 Nov 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > You're right. The "mysqladmin ping" command should be: > /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping -u UNKNOWN_USER 2> /dev/null > > Otherwise, mysqladmin will always try to connect as the "root" user, which > will almost always (and *should* always) have a password. Yepp, but why doesn't Kim Ho accept that? My bug report was TWO times closed by this maintainer! > It might have been a misunderstanding. Hopefully it can be resolved. How? So my bug report is always closed again and bound to the group "rhnpm", also only a few people can read that report... I thought to post all in all at bugtraq - maybe then I'm not ignored... > > And I think it's ugly to use "2> /dev/null" at a Bash script... > It's perfectly normal, and appropriate in this case. Okay ;-) Do you have an idea which person from Red Hat/Bugzilla I can add to the bug - a person that maybe helps to say Kim that she is wrong?! Yours sincerly, Robert