test please delete

[NickFitz]

There seems to be a bit of an upsurge in spam pretending to be greetings cards

[BrilloPad]

Just wasted about an hour mucking up mySQL

I've got a server running on Amazon EC2, and I wanted to move the databases off onto a separate Elastic Block Storage volume, which means it persists after a server shutdown (the server's local disks only persist if you've bundled the machine image and stored it in S3).

So no problem: I copied the existing databases across to the new locations (they're just directories), renamed the old ones to something else, created symbolic links to the new locations, and done

Unfortunately, using my remote admin tool, several of my databases then vanished

After googling around for ages, I finally realised that when I'd changed ownership of the new locations and their contents to the mysql user account, I'd done

chown -r mysql:mysql dbname

instead of

chown -R mysql:mysql dbname

meaning that rather than recursively changing ownership of the directory and all its contents, I'd instead removed read access to it

All working again now

That is superb! I must pass that off as my own at clientco sometime.

Well imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.....

[Diver]

Hello

Just popped in quickly.

Up to my neck in a project

[BrilloPad]

Hello

Just popped in quickly.

Up to my neck in a project

Are you at Brighton yet?

[cojak]

Evening Dear!

You've been busy - not seen you here lately...

[Diver]

Are you at Brighton yet?

Have been for over a week.

Engineering Project Manager. Offshore Wind Farms

Big Boys Toys

[BrilloPad]

Have been for over a week.

Engineering Project Manager. Offshore Wind Farms

Big Boys Toys

Have you discovered the Brighton Night Life yet? Found that bar with the pound glued to the floor?

I still wish you were building a nuclear power station......

[BrilloPad]

[Diver]

Evening Dear!

You've been busy - not seen you here lately...

New Job. To think I turned the interview down 3 times.

They pestered so I eventually came down.

Best move I ever made, The technology and engineering problems are tremendous. which is my bread and butter

Off to Dover in the morning to look at another problem

[Diver]

I'd better get back to work as well. I want to present a solution and a method statement for tomorrow.