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[.jeff]

dan,

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> From: Daniel J. Cody
>
> > so you think there are enough people willing to
> > contribute code over the long haul (not just the
> > initial honeymoon stage) to offset the loss of 4
> > people that currently "get a lot of shit done"?
> > and you think these people that are willing to
> > contribute are on par experience and talent wise
> > with those that'd be replaced?
>
> yes, yes, and yes.
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how long do you suppose it'd take to build a bugfree php version of the cms
with the exact same functionality?

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> > i don't know jack about linux, but couldn't you do
> > something like a symlink (is that what it's called?)
> > or something to the place cf is configured to look?
> > something like this?
> >
> > ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>
> ya, hi. of course i tried that. thankfully, linux has
> a strong enough security backbone where thats not
> allowed. heres why:
>
> ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /home/djc/hackmysql.sock
>
> all the sudden, i can read the contents of that
> unix socket. second, even if it were possible,
> you can't just symlink socket files.
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hmmm, interesting.  all the articles i was reading last night about mysql
were saying to do exactly that.

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> [...] my point was that this should be a confiurable
> thing. only the RedHat RPM file puts that file in
> /var/lib/mysql. you're screwed if you have a default
> MySQL install on anything but redhat(Caldera, SuSe,
> Debian).
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uh, isn't that basically the list of supported linux variants?  if so, at
least coldfusion is installing it where it's most likely already installed.
i'm not saying it's not a headache that you can't change it, only that at
least they put some thought about where it's most likely going to go.

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> [...] (Rearrange your system to work with how we think
> it should. Macromedia, the company that has about 3
> people that know Linux. ahem.).  its either 'their'
> way, or the hard way.
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exaggerations about the number of people at macromedia that know linux, can
you not at least see my point that they made an effort to have cf server
look where the distros they support are most likely to install the .sock
file?

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> people that work with linux systems expect to able to
> change a thing here or there.
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<asshole remark>and people that work with linux should expect to not get it
the way they want all the time.</ar>  *grin*

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> sure. you shouldn't have to rework the basis of your
> DB connectivity across the board to accomdate CF
> though. thats all i'm saying.
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fair enough.

.jeff

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