Song Ken Vern-E11804 schrieb: > I have installed mysql native windows version on Windows. > I have also compiled and installed mysql for cygwin . (I did this because I wanted install the mysql perl modules) you'll only need cygwin libmysqlclient therefore, not the database and not the cygwin clients. > But, running the native version of mysqldump.exe in a cygwin shell seems to hang. > If I run the version compiled from sources, it seems to work. > The database server is the native windows version. > http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.3b-beta-win.zip >> Is this expected behaviour? not expected, but a known problem with the native client versions in the cygwin shell since years. also try to add the host=127.0.0.1 line to the [client] entry at c:\my.cnf so that it will not use the socket method. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/