I am doing a cronjob to dump pg database everyday.
Below is my script for cronjob.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -U ganesh --no-owner -d mq > /backupdb/mq.dump
cd /
cd /backupdb/
tar -czf /backupdb/mq-`date '+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar.gz -R *
This cronjob is schedule to run everyday at 3.30am.
The problem I am facing is the when running the cronjob it is asking for password. If I remove –U ganesh, it is still prompting for password but this time root password.
How do I solve this, when running the pg_dump I don’t want it to prompt for password.
Regards,
ganesh