Ay, Drew. Don't know whether to laugh or cry! :) Have a great last-day-of-the-workweek! :D
___________________________________________________________________ Drew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ocke Janssen - Sun Microsystems Inc. wrote: > What should I say. :-) Today I slept a little bit longer and started > at 7:15 o'clock. Sorry.:-) > > - oj > > Sleeping in is a good thing.. OK - an OT quick story, just to give you a little laugh to end the week. Got to the business of actually moving this forum software onto the server in Hamburg yesterday. Having setup a secure console program on my XP box here, Putty, and having verified that my PK authorization worked so I could log in as root, off I went. Now, it has been a while since I rummaged around on a REAL Unix machine, and true to form none of the files where exactly where the manuals say they should be on a default machine configuration. No problem found them all, and without much delay had a proper database setup in PostgrSQl and a user account for the forum package to user. Next step was to layout the directories and ftp the files there - again, no problem. Great - this is all going better then I expected I thought...time to run the install program. BAM - can't write to the directories it needed to write to. OK - easy fix, set a few permission run it again. Goes a little further and BAM, missing a couple packages. hmmm...I look around, they are there. Again, no problem, all I have to do is add a couple of lines to the php configuration file php.ini. 2 minutes worth of work... Alright, well at this point let me explain something - I have not fired up vi, in oh maybe 13 years...but it is like riding a bicycle right? ( :w, :q ) What else do you really need to know... vi php.ini - hit a key - escape sequences start flying all around...seems my console program and the setting for vi on this box don't really want to get along...oh, I remember this stuff now...LOL.. 10 minutes later there are all kinds of blank lines in that file and lines broken in half - in other words it is shreaded - I do the only thing left :q! Great no harm, no foul. But no update to the file to get the packages I need to do the install. Now what... Quick thought - I could take the time to fix my console settings to play nice with vi, but that will take a little research on my part and I want this done...so...I think, hmmm...wish that file where local...can't send it to my machine - not directly...but I can ftp it to my shared hosting server...( that machine is actually in Toronto Canada, why? Who knows, my isp moved my stuff there last year and what does it matter ) So - I ftp this little 60 line text file to Toronto, fire up ftp on my machine and pull it down to Cumberland, MD USA - make my changes to six lines ( 2 comments ), push it back to the server in Toronto, log onto the server in Hamburg and get it from Toronto...Done... 5 minutes total time. OK - everyone knows about loc / d ( defects per line of code ) metric - I am starting a new metric loc / mt ( miles traveled per lines of code ) my current standing 1,000 miles per line... :>) Do I get frequent flyer miles for this stuff. Have a great day. Drew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "En el jardin de tu corazón, no plantes sino la rosa del amor." Bahá´u´lláh Fundación Anisa, A.C. www.fundacionanisa.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
