python backup script

[Matt Jones]

I've never used ConfigParser either, but shouldn't the "[client]" section
have the options "mmz", "pass1", or "localhost" somewhere?  Do you need to
add them to that file?

*Matt Jones*


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM, MMZ <programmer.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 6, 2013 3:11:33 PM UTC-4, Jerry Hill wrote:
> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:01 PM, MMZ <programme... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to backup database on CentOS linux server,I'm getting error
> when running the following script. anyone can help?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >
> >   File "./backup.py", line 8, in ?
> >
> >     username = config.get('client', 'mmz')
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 511, in get
> >
> >     raise NoSectionError(section)
> >
> >
> >
> > I've never used ConfigParser, but that
> >
> > error message looks pretty simple to interpret.  You've set up a
> ConfigParser object, told it to read in ~/my.cnf, the asked for the value
> of section 'client', option 'mmz'.  The error indicates that your config
> files doesn't have a section named 'client'.
> >
> >
> >
> > What is the content of your ~/my.cnf file?
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Jerry
>
> Thank you for helping Jerry. Actually I found this script for debian but I
> want to use it for CentOS server so I replaced /etc/mysql/debian.cnf with
> ~/my.cnf
> the file content is:
>
>  Example MySQL config file for medium systems.
> #
> # This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
> # an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together
> with
> # other programs (such as a web server)
> #
> # MySQL programs look for option files in a set of
> # locations which depend on the deployment platform.
> # You can copy this option file to one of those
> # locations. For information about these locations, see:
> # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
> #
> # In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
> # If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
> # with the "--help" option.
>
> # The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
> [client]
> #password       = your_password
> port            = 3306
> socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock
>
> # Here follows entries for some specific programs
>
> # The MySQL server
> [mysqld]
> port            = 3306
> socket          = /tmp/mysql.sock
> skip-locking
> key_buffer_size = 16M
> max_allowed_packet = 1M
> table_open_cache = 64
> sort_buffer_size = 512K
> net_buffer_length = 8K
> read_buffer_size = 256K
> read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
> myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
>
> # Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
> # if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
> # All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
> # Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
> # (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
> #
> #skip-networking
>
> # Replication Master Server (default)
> # binary logging is required for replication
> log-bin=mysql-bin
>
> # binary logging format - mixed recommended
> binlog_format=mixed
>
> # required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
> # defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
> # but will not function as a master if omitted
> server-id       = 1
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