Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL bug

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/28/00 7:24 AM, Fathi Said at fathi@xxxxxx wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I can recall there has been a MySQL thread some time ago and some people
> suggested to update mySQL due to the vulnerability of all old versions.
> 
> Now, I wondered how could I upgrade mySQL and still keep all existing
> databases on the server (so that they don't get deleted and continue to
> work)?
> 
> Is there any way that our clients could make use of this bug when they
> *only* use the PHP MyAdmin control panel (http://phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/)
> for accessing their database?

Well before you do anything to the database (and you should probably be
doing this on a nightly basis anyway, you should run the following command :

mysqldump databasename -u username --password=password >
/home/sites/home/users/admin/thisdatabasebackup.sql

for each database on the site.

-k