MySQLTuner 0.9.9 is now available for download. There’s a new wiki for the script at wiki.mysqltuner.com. The new wiki contains links to downloads, changelogs, and other details.
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I was working with a CentOS 5 x86_64 installation running VMWare server last week when I stumbled upon this error:
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/VMware/VmPerl.pm line 114.
You can run the vmware-cmd application with this error (it’s not a fatal error) and keep going with your normal business. However, if you want [...]
One of the most frustrating aspects of CPAN is connecting to mirrors via FTP. Most of the time, the mirrors are extraordinarily slow when it comes to FTP logins, and they often fail. As we all know, RHEL enjoys pulling some shenanigans (Scalar::Util - enough said) when perl receives an upgrade, and when [...]
I received an e-mail from Tim Linden about a post he made in his blog about backing up MySQL data to Amazon’s S3.
The article goes over installing the Net::Amazon::S3 Perl module via WHM (which is handy for the cPanel users). However, if you’re not a cPanel user, you can install it via CPAN:
# perl [...]
Apparently, a recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for ES3, 4 and 5 caused some Perl applications to throw errors like these:
unable to call function somefunction on undefined value
Of course, replace somefunction with your function of choice. To correct the issue, you can force CPAN to bring back a more sane version of Scalar::Util:
# [...]