Thanks Paul! Much appreciated. I'm sure this will be of help to others, particularly because to WinXP Perl neophytes like myself, you only get to find out mysqlhotcopy.pl won't work because of the "getpwuid" function after you go through solving how to get DBI.pm installed (which turned out to be relatively easy by PPM, of course, but finding THAT out wasn't 2nd-nature to a newbie like myself), because that's what falls over first, since it doesn't seem to be distributed with the ActiveState Perl 5.8 package. So, laugh, you fix that only to find you can't fix the next problem...
Thanks again! Much warmth, Murray http://www.planetthoughtful.org Building a thoughtful planet, one snide comment at a time... -----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 7 June 2003 10:54 AM To: Murray Wells; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question / suggestion re: mysqlhotcopy At 10:34 +1000 6/7/03, Murray Wells wrote: >Hi All, > >Apologies if this has been done to death previously, but would it be >sensible to indicate in the MySQL documentation that the Perl >mysqlhotcopy script only appears to work on the Linux platform? (Or, >more accurately, doesn't work on the WinXP platform, I have no idea >about other platforms) Done. > >At least, so it appears when attempting to get it to work on WinXP >using ActiveState Perl 5.8. It appears the "getpwuid" function is >unsupported in the Win32 implementation. > >Alternatively, if there's a known work-around, I'd love to hear about >it, and maybe that should go into the documentation instead? > >Much warmth, > >Murray >http://www.planetthoughtful.org >Building a thoughtful planet, >one snide comment at a time... -- Paul DuBois, Senior Technical Writer Madison, Wisconsin, USA MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Are you MySQL certified? http://www.mysql.com/certification/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
