RE: RAID or not?

2003-08-22 Thread Lefevre, Steven
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Drukman Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RAID or not? Lefevre, Steven wrote: I say go with RAID 5, on a controller card. Mirroring just gives you backup, and you lose

RE: RAID or not?

2003-08-21 Thread Lefevre, Steven
I say go with RAID 5, on a controller card. Mirroring just gives you backup, and you lose half your diskspace. It offers no performance benefit, and actually the computer might have to work harder to make sure the drives are in sync. Disk striping makes things *fast*, BUT THERE IS NO PROTECTION.

Secure Database Design Part II

2003-08-15 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Hey folks - Thanks to everyone who gave input to my concerns. Of course, we don't intend to have the mysql port open to the world. We will have Apache/PHP connect on a unix socket, or to another machine with a cross-cable on non-routeable IPs. But now I have another question. We are working on

MD5-read permission?

2003-08-14 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Hey folks - While contemplating the design of a secure web database, an idea struck me. I'm thinking of submitting it as a feature request, so please critique it. I'm having php handle user logon with it's .htaccess emulation. I'm storing usernames and password hashes in a table. The problem is

Designing a secure database?

2003-08-14 Thread Lefevre, Steven
I'm working on a website/database deal, and right now I'm designing the security model. It's using LAMP(HP), so all the tricks are going to be through PHP. First off, this will be behind a firewall with SSL encryption. We may also setup some kind of VPN tunneling.I'll be ignoring other security

subselect workaround help?

2003-01-08 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Hey folks- 'nother question. I'm not an SQL expert, and I think I need a subselect, which means I need a workaround on MySQL 3.23 or whatever version it is. Here's the tables I have, with the relevant columns: Students - Name - StudentID (PK) - ClassID Classes - ClassID (PK) - Name Each

Weird WHERE clause possible?

2003-01-07 Thread Lefevre, Steven
I'm developing a web-site database. There is a form on one page where a user can search for a student by typing in a last name and submitting it. Sometimes there can be more than one student with the same last name, so I want the user to be able to type in Smith, J (where normally they type

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-07 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Can you post this script? (Minus the passwords, etc.) - Original Message - From: Simon Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jonas Widarsson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: RE: Backups mechanism What we have done it right a small script:

Re: Weird WHERE clause possible?

2003-01-07 Thread Lefevre, Steven
- Original Message - From: Ryan Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lefevre, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Weird WHERE clause possible? Backing up, is the problem that you need to uniquely identify the student's name after

Re: Can't find hosts.frm -- *directory* permissions now okay?

2002-12-12 Thread Lefevre, Steven
mysql still doesn't own the mysql directory. OK, I changed that for /usr/libexec [root@server /]# ls -la /usr/libexec/ total 4008 drwxr-xr-x7 root root 4096 Dec 11 15:28 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 27 09:32 .. ... drwxr-xr-x3 mysqlmysql

Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm'

2002-12-11 Thread Lefevre, Steven
OK, I'm making progess on my MySQL problem. The log file says this: 021211 15:32:05 mysqld started 021211 15:32:05 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13) 021211 15:32:05 mysqld ended I've run the mysql_install_db script when I first installed mysql. I ran it

Unexpected ending

2002-12-10 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Hey folks - Linux newbie here. I have RH 8.0 installed on a machine. I did an RPM installation of MySQL 3.23 (or whatever the current 3 series is). When I try to start the safe daemon, I get this: [root@server ]# /usr/bin/safe_mysqld Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

Re: Unexpected ending

2002-12-10 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Before I get 1000 RTFMs, I found on google references to an error file. I did a search (after rebuilding the 'locate' database) and found no error file! :( Also, no results returned on the mysql mailing list archive. - Original Message - From: Lefevre, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED