To those seeking an RPC/Email backend server

Of course we still have the issue of everyone being on seperate boxes (although I am thinking the file storage may be linked...) If nothing else, we could save time by just tossing the binaries back and forth and not having to worry about re-compiling.

You might consider asking support to allow you access to my mount-point.

FWIW, the support to me in DreamHost to date has been *awesome*. Very impressed.

Azelda

(By the way, other software available at /home/hughperkins is:

Lua : /home/hughperkins/dev/lua-5.0.2 (/include, /lib)
Ode: /home/hughperkins/dev/ode-0.5 (/include, /lib; float precision, no trimesh)
TinyXML: /home/hughperkins/dev/tinyxml

And, of course, OSMP:

/home/hughperkins/dev/hughsworkarea (/linux)

)

Azelda

Looping to check e-mails and slaying the server????!!!!!

Rather do something like:

# vi /etc/aliases
(insert the following line, for example)
timeless | "/usr/local/bin/pipeMail2mysql"
# newaliases

Where 'timeless' is the username (replace that with your actual one) and the pipe to 'pipeMail2mysql' will cause sendmail to send the e-mail, headers and all, _AS SOON AS IT ARRIVES_, via stdin to 'pipeMail2mysql'. Where 'pipeMail2mysql' is a compiled c/c++ binary executable file (that you will write, or pay me vast L$ to write for you) that knows how to take stdin and insert records into MySQL.

- Timeless

Assuming you have access to /etc/aliases, and stuff. For a general user on one of these hosting services it's probably still doable to send straight to a script (procmail?), but not quite that simple.

Good point about the aliases file. So try this...

$ vi ~/.forward
| "/home/timeless/bin/pipe2mysql"
:wq

??

- Timeless

Dreamhost uses postfix. Use ~/.forward.postfix, not ~/.forward. I'm not sure if the placement of the quotes makes a difference, but my .foward.postfix file looks like this:

"|/home/foo/bin/myscript"

(with the quotes)

excellent

Talk about you snooze you lose! It's only 10 days later and it looks like the plan is now $7.95/month. Still a deal mind you, but not quite as outrageous...

Just for reference, we are talking about the 'Crazy Domain Insane' product, right?

I was wrong it still works with promo code 777.

W00t!

Its been a while since i used linux

Does anyone have the time to show me the briefest example of how to communicate via XML/Python on dreamhost to SL?

I do not see /home/hughperkins if that matters, my python shows in /usr/bin/python and is 2.1.3

Any advice or help to help me shake off the years of rust is appreciated greatly.

For info, MySQLdb module added to Python distrib at /home/hughperkins/Python-2.3.4

Example of interactive usage:

[marvin]$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 12 2004, 00:48:54)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
>>> help("MySQLdb")

>>> conn = MySQLdb.connect( host = "mydb.manageddreams.com", user="mydb", passwd = "mypass", db="mydb")
>>> cursor = conn.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute("SELECT VERSION()")
1L
>>> row = cursor.fetchone()
>>> print row[0]
4.0.20-log
>>> cursor.close()
>>> conn.close()
>>> conn = MySQLdb.connect( host = "mydb.manageddreams.com", user="mydb", passwd= "mypass",db="mydb")
>>> cursor = conn.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute("select * from test")
1L
>>> row = cursor.fetchone()
>>> print row[0]
blah
>>>

Azelda

Note to users of python at /home/hughperkins/Python-2.3.4: please update your paths to:

/home/hughperkins/local/bin/python

The Python has been recompiled with sys.prefix = /home/hughperkins/local which makes it much, much easier to install new modules, such as MySQLdb. Specifically, MySQLdb module works only with this new installation.

Azelda

Edit: installation rebuilt to avoid requirement for presence of gcc 3.x libraries. Python at /home/hughperkins/local/bin/python now works from cgi.

Azelda

sicne i cant point to yours, ended up doing my own install, used 2.4b1 lots of nice bug fixes

Please help me get DreamHost to install InnoDB. If you are using their MySQL servers to do any kind of e-commerce, and you want safe transactions, InnoDB is a must!