Re: TCP/IP Security for Remote Access of MySQL DBs...for newbie

2002-02-04 Thread Mikel King
Hi Rich, Just so I understand you correctly; 1. Are you trying to use the replication features of MySql for this communication? Or 2. Are you talking on the client side application, like PHP, Java, Perl...? How about encrypting the data itself and skipping the

Re: [PHP-DB] any good web hosting with php and mysql support? (OT)

2002-01-14 Thread Mikel King
Starting @ $20.00/month http://www.ocsny.com -- Original Message -- From: Gurhan Ozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:17:59 -0500 Hi All, I am currently looking for a reliable web host to host my personal website. I know there are

Re: mysqldump - basic question

2001-12-21 Thread Mikel King
Rory, Take a look at the shell scripts for mysqlbackup here http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=mysqlbackup It will explain things quite nicely. Cheers, m! ROry O'Connor wrote: this is an absolute newbie question - but when i try to run mysqldump with a cron (like with a shell

Re: Need help with SELECT and JOIN pls

2001-12-07 Thread Mikel King
I'm no expert in this in fact I just recently started playing with joins, but here's one that I actually used for a recent shopprt cart piece. I appologise if it wraps but the output is long...content conatins the basic content info but product contains the list of prices. Yes I could have

Re: ALTER TABLE error

2001-12-06 Thread Mikel King
are you sure you don't want to UPDATE Advertisers SET PACK_KEYS=0;? Steve Osborne wrote: Can anyone tell me why I am receiving the following error? I am connecting to a remote server via ssh, and accessed the mysql prompt by typing: mysql The following is the screen contents after

Re: Image's

2001-12-03 Thread Mikel King
tryt constructing a URL like file:///images/110101/yourpic.jpg out of the location... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either the coffee is flat or someone switched to decafe on me. What is the proper way to retrive an image that is stored as a path in a field name with SQL? My path would be

Re: conceptual question.

2001-11-29 Thread Mikel King
Recommend that you store the link/url in lieu of the actual files. cheers, mikel Venu Allavatam wrote: hello all! i have a question regarding the storage of data. The doubt is... Should the data (mostly binary files) be stored in the database as a field or a link(a path) to the data be stored.

Re: question

2001-11-09 Thread Mikel King
Check your grants table in the mysql db...make sure you have given yourself permission to user said db from the specified host as that user... Wells, Kenneth L wrote: How can I fix this? Database: mysql_error:Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to This mysql server Fatal

Re: How to make apache webserver on a Linux box connect to a remote mySQLdatabase on a separate Sun box

2001-11-01 Thread Mikel King
well for starters you should look into updating your grants table, to allowe the remote server to access the db. Don't forget to properly set the userid, password, and perms for this...Highly encourage to grant this id read only access...but that's your call. Then on the prospective webserver

Re: FreeBSD server help

2001-10-23 Thread Mikel King
Kyle, Need a bit more info, what version of mysql? Have you granted the other host(s) permission to use mysql? are you using mysqladmin to stop and start the daemon? cheers, m! Kyle B wrote: Hi all, I am going to try and describe my problem as best as possible. here it goes. Am

Re: Unix Shell Auth from MySQL

2001-10-19 Thread Mikel King
checkout pam_mysql under the ports collection in fBSD...;) cheers, Mikel Chris Aitken wrote: Hi, Something ive been thinking about for a while but havent been able to come up with a definitive answer is this... Is there a system out there which can take over from the normal

Re: Expect Script accessing MySQL

2001-09-24 Thread Mikel King
I'm not up on expect, but I would assume that since you can use sh then you should ber able to use expect. Generally speaking in sh you can do the following: #!/bin/sh MYSQLCMD=/usr/local/bin./mysql USER=me' HOST=some.host.com PASSWD=whatever QUERY=SELECT userId FROM thisTable WHERE id=1

Re: ACT2 Conversion

2001-06-01 Thread Mikel King
Hi guys, Are we talking about Symantec's ACT product? Cheers, Mikel Rolf Hopkins wrote: I've never heard of ACT2 but if you can export the data to a delimited text file, you could import it into mysql. You may have to edit the file a bit though. - Original Message - From:

Re: MySQL performances?

2001-02-26 Thread Mikel King
Well what exactly do you consider big? Mohamed Sadok MOUHA wrote: Hi, does any one used MySQL in real environment with big databases and a big number of connections? If yes, what's the hardware config? Thanks --

Re: Once again... quotas...

2001-02-21 Thread Mikel King
At the company I work for we decided to try and implement reverse quotas. rather than limit said user to x we keep track of their usage and compare it to x. If they should happen to exceed that values then they are billed for the overage. It's very muhc like how UU bills us on our bandwidth for

Re: taxes

2001-02-15 Thread Mikel King
... Original Message Follows From: Mikel King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LDL Enterprise [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: *MySQL mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: taxes Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:57:35 -0500 Wound't you just set a table with an id, state_abrev, tax columns

Re: taxes

2001-02-15 Thread Mikel King
the core storefront locations...Anyway that's how they do it...not how everyone else does...this make good sense if your host is located in one state...;) ok I think we've veer far enough off course... cheers, mikel Mike Wexler wrote: Mikel King wrote: guys I think you are making this a way

Re: taxes

2001-02-14 Thread Mikel King
Wound't you just set a table with an id, state_abrev, tax columns. Then the id column will match the selection...et cettera...capisce LDL Enterprise wrote: does anyone know how to calculateg taxes for a shop cart that would set the tax depending on the state that they select when filling

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Mikel King
Problem is that most ISPs can't afford a competent DBA...;( clay bond wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Donald Korth wrote: The hosting company has given me a user name and passwd . When i log into my own site thro' a telnet session i 'm able to view all the databases created in the server that

Re: Shell Shocking

2001-02-13 Thread Mikel King
Absolutely this is nothing short of bad adminingIbet you could scag in their passwd file and has root access in short order...;( And of course the ISP will blame mysql if anything happens to them though...lazy bad ISP cheers, mikel Donald Korth wrote: Hello The hosting company

Re: Port 3306

2001-02-05 Thread Mikel King
fwcmd=/sbin/ipfw... on BSD usage like so ${FWCMD} add deny all from any to any via ${oif} Have to make a new kernel to support ipfw though cheers, mikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What OS? If Linux or *BSD, they have firewall software (ipchains on linux, don't recall what it

Re: GUI for Linux mySQL

2001-02-01 Thread Mikel King
Marko, Check out... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/databases/mysql-navigator/pkg-descr Also there are a few php as wellas python driven utils out there that make it entirely web based Cheers, Mikel Marko Sarunac wrote: Is there a GUI for mySQL that will run on either

Re: Problem for localhost connection.....

2001-01-29 Thread Mikel King
did you edit /etc/resolv.conf? dyu wrote: Dear all, i m running mysql on freebsd webserver and using our own DNS server. Everything run fine with database and web serving. However, i m trying to change the DNS ip addresses to our isp's DNS server instead of ours on this webserver. Then

Re: OT - Cron

2001-01-25 Thread Mikel King
Ade, Try: http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=osl It should have what you need. Cheers, Mikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I`ve been searching for hours now so I thought I`d ask some lists I belong to, does anyone know of a decent CRON tutorial??? TIA Ade

Re: Changing a Table name

2001-01-25 Thread Mikel King
Of course there is... ALTER TABLE name RENAME newname ; Of course you can find this sort of thing in the manual of even on Quetin Smith's SQL reference site... http://comclub.dyndns.org:8081/sqlref/ Cheers, Mikel Don wrote: Hi, Is there a quick and simple way to change the name of a Table

Re: Corrupted tables

2001-01-24 Thread Mikel King
I've had some db corruption on a few occasions, and luckily I was running the following in a nightly cron...it has since first install saved my butt on many an occasion. http://www.ocsny.com/main/index.ocs?url=mysqlbackup It doesn't do anything magickal just uses mysqldump and a basic routine to

Re: Starting MySQL

2001-01-17 Thread Mikel King
Yes stop the old and start the new...on a side note...should have bought DuBios's book...ISBN: 0-7357-0921-1 Found it to be an invaluable source on this sort of stuff. In any event safe_mysqld seems to be default on most sytems...Yes please get you security straight...if the app is colocated on

Re: Please read the manual

2001-01-11 Thread Mikel King
In order to conserver bw I'll only through my $0.01 in...;) I do believe that if you search the list you will see that many of us who are not on the devteam do answer questions. Although I do whole heartedly believe in RTFM; I agree with you about the power of the people, and feel it is