mysqldump error

when I enter this command (which worked fine on my laptop, no
difference in configuration) I am getting this funky error:

command: mysqldump --tab=mysqldump db_name -u <user> -p <password>

mysqldump: Can't create/write to file 'mysqldump/file.sql' (Errcode:
2)
mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'SHOW TRIGGERS LIKE' filename : Commands
out of sync: you can't run this command now (2014

I don't have anything accessing any of the databases (like TOAD for
instance), so I don't know what the problem is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to re-
create all the tables, or write the sql scripts, and the text files
manually.

Nevermind, I just used mysqldump db_name mysql.dump and ran the result
as a script in toad =P