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Mysql Migration Toolkit on CentOs 4.4 - AHRG

Submitted by bdeferme on December 20, 2007 - 19:48

Today I was trying to dump an oracle database into a mysql dumpfile, and no mather what I tried (using the mysql migration toolkit on windows) it always failed…

The first try gave me some import errors telling me that there was an invalid value ‘x0′ in the field lists, google didn’t help me :(

The second try gave me no import errors but I ended up with a really weird mysql database changing the row count from a specific table on each query (without modifying the database in between).

All the other tries gave me headache.

So I decided to install the mysql migration toolkit on a linux system, I chose CentOs since installing an rpm should be faster (and more easy, at least I hoped so), well BAD LUCK to myself as the only version available here at the office was a CentOs 4.4 and I didn’t want to download a newer one.

When trying to install the migration toolkit on this CentOs operating system I ran into some dependancy errors:

libjvm.so is needed by mysql-gui-tools-5.0r11-1rhel4.i386
libjvm.so(SUNWprivate_1.1) is needed by mysql-gui-tools-5.0r11-1rhel4.i386

Well, I ended my day today by fixing the dependancies, but altough everything is fine, the mysql migration toolkit rpm contains a bug telling me that the dependancies are NOT met :-(

Grumpy Security

Submitted by bdeferme on December 20, 2007 - 16:39

I must say, being a security guy looks really really boring and lonesome to me!
I had to be at a client today (and yesterday) and what I noticed was that every time I signed myself in or out the security guy was soooo fr*cking grumpy! He would look angry, talk angry (throw with stuff!) and not be friendly at all.

It was actually pretty funny because every time he got unfriendly I got more friendly :-). That resulted in an even more grumpy security guy.

Conlusion? Never become a security guy unless you are really really sure that you like it, because it is very lonesome, boring and frustrating if you do not :-).

Redhat Certified

Submitted by bdeferme on December 19, 2007 - 18:32

As my blog is up and running again, although the domain name has been changed I hope to be more active on my blog again and I will start with some good news!

I passed my RHCT/RCHE exams after RH300 course (one week). Here are my scores:

Overall Section I score: 100

RHCT components score: 80.6
RHCE components score: 87.5

RHCE Certification: PASS