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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Expect command to switch user Post 302322376 by Sapna_Sai on Wednesday 3rd of June 2009 02:05:34 PM
Old 06-03-2009
"assword:" is for "Password:". Use of "assword:" speeds up the execution, i read it somewhere. Well, that worked for me.

Thanks
Sapna
 

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FSGATEWAY(1)						      General Commands Manual						      FSGATEWAY(1)

NAME
fsgateway - FUSE module to browse database's metadata, sugar datastores and xml files SYNOPSIS
mono fsgateway storage_type connection_string [fuse_option] mountpoint DESCRIPTION
FsGateway allows you to use your preferred directory navigation tool to inspect a database's metadata, sugar datastores and xml files. FsGateway allows you to compare two database structures in an easy way using the diff tool, or to find where a field is defined using the grep tool. storage_type can be: tagfs You must provide the root directory of tree to examine as connection_string parameter. xmlfs You must provide the need the XML file to read as connection_string parameter. postgresql Specify the connection_string parameter like this one: Server=localhost; Database=mydb; User ID=username; Password=password; Port=5432; sugar_datastore You must specify the directory used by the Sugar datastore as connection_string parameter. MySQL5 Specify the connection_string parameter like this one: Server=localhost; Database=mydb; User ID=username; Password=password; Port=3306; SqlServer Specify the connection_string parameter like this one: Server=localhost,port; Database=mydb; User ID=username; Password=password; or like this one: Server=localhost,port; Database=mydb; User ID=domainnameusername; Password=password; Integrated Security=SSPI For detail information about the parameters connection look at http://www.mono-project.com/SQLClient SEE ALSO
fusermount(1) AUTHOR
fsgateway was written by Torello Querci <torello@torosoft.com> This manual page was written by Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). January 2010 FSGATEWAY(1)
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