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Description of problem:
In the logrotate script /etc/logrotate.d/mysqld, we call the command
'/usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs'. On my system, this leads to the
following error:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'

Of course the user root@localhost has a password on my machine.

If I run the flush-logs command with '-p' and interactively give the
password it works just fine.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install and configure mysql-server, logrotate and cron
2. set mysql-root password
3. setup some database or other
4. wait for cron error message


Actual Results:  Cron calls logrotate which executes
/etc/logrotate.d/mysqld. This fails with the error message 

/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'

Cron notifies me about that in an e-mail

Expected Results:  The script should have executed successfully and silently

Additional info:

anacron-2.3-17
crontabs-1.10-1
logrotate-3.5.9-1
mysql-3.23.41-1
mysql-devel-3.23.41-1
mysql-server-3.23.41-1
mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6
vixie-cron-3.0.1-63

Please see attachment for a dump of the user and host tables.