Bug#845225: mytop: Incorrectly parses quoted values in .my.cnf

Hi Matthew, the issue relies on the way how Config::IniFiles (used by mytop) and the mysql client itself process the config files. This can easily solved bycreating a ~/.mytop config as described. Therefor I'm closing this bug. Thanks for your help, Werner

Bug#845225: mytop: Incorrectly parses quoted values in .my.cnf

Great! That solves my problem. Thank you kindly Werner for your work in maintaining this package (and of course for telling me how to work around this). Take care, On 23 November 2016 at 23:33, Werner Detter wrote: > Hi, > > just create a custom ~/.mytop file like

Bug#845225: mytop: Incorrectly parses quoted values in .my.cnf

Hi, just create a custom ~/.mytop file like follows (see perldoc mytop for more information): werner@debian:~$ cat ~/.mytop user=youruser pass=my#password host=localhost And your ~/.my.cnf remains: [client] password="my#password" mytop and the mysql client are working this way. Thanks, Werner

Bug#845225: mytop: Incorrectly parses quoted values in .my.cnf

Package: mytop Version: 1.9.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The mysql client allows values in .my.cnf to be quoted, while mytop understands quotes around the values in the file as being part of the value. As a result, there is no way to write .my.cnf in a way that'll allow hash symbols