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After a two-week hiatus, I finally have everything working and running open source off of my linux box, including the CONTENT creation scripts. I had gotten things to run pretty well around the time of my last entry, but I biffed it bigtime at the beginning of the month. I was su’ed on the linux box and did a rm -rf at /usr/lib accidentally and pretty much blew away the machine. That was smart. What was that saying about unix giving you just enough rope to hang yourself with?



The sticking point after the second reinstall was getting the data residing in SQL2K into mySQL. It wasn’t so much a technical pain as it was a personal pain getting my ass sat down in front of the terminal and reading the column definitions and manuals for mySQL, as well as writing the perl program that would read the data from SQL2K, transform it so mySQL wouldn’t barf, then inserting it correctly into the db.