Re: Security, ownership and daemon startup

2001-05-10 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - Paul DuBois writes: > At 9:53 AM -0400 5/9/01, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > >The developers that want to use the database would like ownership > >of the files and daemon so that they can modify and restart at will. > > Tell them to pick one of their accounts to be used for run

RE: Open Source MySQL Appl. Dev Tools for W2K/NT/W98.

2001-05-06 Thread William Goedicke
Dear J.T. - Fowler, J.T. writes: > This does not have to be fancy with lots of bells & whistles. In fact - the > simpler the screen interface the better for the people who will be using > this. I.E. text entry - tabular displays of valid entry values. Point and > click would be nice but r

Re: RPM dependency on MySQL-DBI-perl-bin

2001-04-24 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Jason - Jason Feingold writes: > Hi - Im installing the MySQL-bench-3.23.37-1.i386.rpm, cant install > because of a MySQL-DBI-perl-bin dependency. Using the RPM mechanism to install perl modules is fraught with problems. Don't use it; you'll be sorry you did in the long run. But, fear n

Any low budget database access available ???

2001-04-23 Thread William Goedicke
Dear me - me writes: > I am hoping to find somebody who provides low budget mysql and php access. Buy yourself a copy of "Web Techniques" magazine and browse the advertisements. Yours - Billy - Before postin

capturing mysql errors in Perl

2001-04-20 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Yogi - yogi writes: > I've got a problem on one of my clients' servers, which is, that the > errors mySQL throws are not captured by the Perl CGI using mySQL, but are > thrown regardless, meaning that a CGI that provokes an error in mySQL > will produce an unspecified "Internal Server E

recommend a good book for connecting from mysql to other dbs

2001-04-20 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Tom - (Please bear with me for a philosophical prolog.) Tom Beidler writes: > I'm running into more and more clients that would like to connect to > another database. Say there inventory tracking software. I was > wondering if there was a good book out there or a web site that > might hav

Re: MySQL vs SQLServer vs PostgresSQL

2001-04-20 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Kevin - Kevin Pratt writes: > > "IMO - mysql is just a disaster you are inviting on yourself. Isn't there some line about everyone having an opinion... > you should see the responses to some recent bug reports ... > > We have run load tests ourselves, and postgres performs much the

MySQL vs SQLServer vs PostgresSQL

2001-04-19 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Kevin - (I can't resist the obvious quip.) Kevin Pratt writes: > I have heard mysql is the access for unix... Yes, like emacs is the notepad for unix. Yours (in gentle jest) - Billy - Before posting, please c

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-10 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - Well, I'm pretty giddy having just gotten my linux box to successfully communicate with M$ SQL Server on a remote NT machine. As promised, in gratitude for earlier help from list members I've written this e-mail outlining how I got it to work. The real trick was to follow the inst

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-06 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - Joshua Chamas writes: > I believe that perl's DBD::Sybase can be used to connect to > MS SQL server. I've never done it myself mind you, but heard > it to be true. Vivek Khera writes: > Except that perl/DBI requires an underlying C library for the DBMS in > question. I un

Firewall logged probes on mysql port

2001-04-06 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - Gary Huntress writes: > I've looked around at basic security sites (sans.org, whitehats.com) This is slightly off topic but another security site I'm finding useful is http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm. Yours - Billy --

Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - I've developed a diff-based testing framework in perl. It's used to qualify modifications we want to make to systems (i.e. applying patches, installing applications...) for deployment to a thousand some odd machines. The testing framework runs on linux and tests target machines th