i still get this message every onec in a while before i gave the full path to mysaladmin, but now i think it wants the password too? how do i go about that without flat out putting the password for mysql admin in the log rotate.d don't know if this should belong to a mysql list? it first started as a log rotate that ended to this. errors occured while rotating /var/log/mysql.log ^G/opt/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)' error running postrotate script -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.