Hi Plz, help me out i want to allow one of my linux user to run this below bash script to take mysql database backup. [b]Shell Script:[/b] <!---------------- ##################### -----------------------> #!/bin/bash TIMESTAMP=`date +%m-%d-%y-%H%M` cd /home/backups/mysql find /home/backups/mysql/*.tar.gz -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} ; # my database DBNAME=my_database mysqldump --opt -c -e -Q -u MYSQL_USER -p'MYSQL_PASSWORD' $DBNAME > $DBNAME.sql tar czpf $DBNAME.$TIMESTAMP.tar.gz $DBNAME.sql rm -f $DBNAME.sql <!---------------- ##################### -----------------------> But when i am running this script as a normal user it is giveing me an error of [b]"Permission denied"[/b] Thanks Harshad Pandit alias(PHP Pandit) <a href="http://php-pandit.blogspot.com/">Harshad Pandit's Blog</a>