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[floyd]

space between -u and username

With or without a space is optional.

The only one of my posts that had a space between the -p and the password is the first one which was a quote from another web site. http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Backing-up-and-restoring-your-MySQL-Database/

The rest of my posts that I personally typed never had the space between the -p and the password.

How could I have known it was normal to have cron-rights as user?

And that is why your question should have gone to your host first. Your host may have determined whether you have that right or not.

How could you have known: http://site-helper.com/

And I do have the reseller status.

That's great. But the cron command is still entered as User not Reseller.

 

[floyd]

And I did specifically state 2 DAYS AGO:

I did find that taking out the space between the -u and the username and the -p and the password works. I don't know why.