Comment 13 for bug 995587

Sorry, I am not using automysqlbackup, we have a few line script that does
it, and I somehow thought this was a general mysql (mysqldump, to be
precise) bug.

On 1 February 2013 09:14, Thomas Goirand <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Fri Feb 1 2013 02:27:21 PM CST, Jan Groenewald <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > This bug persists for me on 12.04
>
> hi,
>
> please post you /etc/default/automysqlbackup, and
> tell which version of automysqlbackup you use.
>
> Thomas
>
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> Title:
> mysqldump: Got error: 1142: SELECT,LOCK TABL command denied to user
> 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' for table 'cond_instances' when using
> LOCK TABLES
>
> Status in “automysqlbackup” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Release: 12.04
> automysqlbackup:
> Installed: 2.6+debian-2
> Candidate: 2.6+debian-2
> Version table:
> *** 2.6+debian-2 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
> After a remove --purge, reinstall of automysqlbackup, and configure in
> /etc/defaults/automysqlbackup, I am emailed the following error when cron
> runs /usr/sbin/automysqlbackup:
>
> mysqldump: Got error: 1142: SELECT,LOCK TABL command denied to user
> 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' for table 'cond_instances' when using
> LOCK TABLES
>
> it seems that the default on ubuntu is to use the user debian-sys-
> maint to run this backup, however debian-sys-maint doesn't have full
> permissions. Some say that these tables are not necessary to backup
> and recommend the flag " --skip-add-locks" OR "--skip-lock-tables":
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/268566/cant-backup-the-mysql-table-
> with-mysqldump-select-lock-tabl-command-denied-for
>
> I managed to get the error to go away by adding "--skip-lock-tables"
> to /usr/sbin/automysqlbackup:
>
>
> if [ -z "${USERNAME}" -o -z "${PASSWORD}" ] ; then
> mysqldump --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf $NEWOP\
> T --skip-lock-tables $1 > $2
> else
> mysqldump --user=$USERNAME --password=$PASSWORD --host\
> =$DBHOST --skip-lock-tables $NEWOPT $1 > $2
> fi
> return 0
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