On Wed, December 20, 2006 12:55, Roberto Malinverni wrote: > You can write a script in the %post section of the rpm, which executes the > .sql. > The installation of the rpm is performed by root, and so are all the scripts > in the package itself. You can't save the password in the rpm - or it won't install on machines > other than yours. > > Roberto Malinverni Thanks Roberto. The problem resides in the mysql root password. The .sql must be run like: cat pandoradb.sql | mysql -D pandora -u root -p cat pandoradb_data.sql | mysql -D pandora -u root -p So I need to know the password before running the scripts, is there a way to do that? Thanks Manuel