On my Slackware 7.1 Linux, I had to build and ... with the following commands: myhost:~# mysql igo mysql> create table gosei ( black varchar(30), white varchar(30), dt date, rez varchar(30), fname ...

When running non-interactive MySQL commands one may submit MySQL credentials on the command line (we'll share with you a better option after the break), e.g.: mysql --password=secret --user=username ...