[Maps-l] running tools on cassini / db / old-name

[Peter Körner]

Aude schrieb:
> On 8/13/09, Tim Alder <tim.alder at s2002.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> the outdating is not so the problem for me because I only want to make
>> my first steps in postgres on this way (I hope I find time).
>> For regular updating we should wait for our db-server.
>>
>> But it would be nice if you can tell me how you contact the database, in
>> which language your scripts are and where they are.
>> So why doesn't http://cassini.toolserver.org/~kolossos/osm work (PHP) if
>> it's fine on http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/osm ?
>>
>> Greetings Kolossos
>>
> 
> I had time available today to look at how postgres is setup and found
> that further configuration work is needed, including for how user
> authentication is handled.  This means that whatever way Peter is
> using will change.
I don't see any problem with that. Atm i'm not even using the 
postgres-db as
it's not interesting to me as long as it's not up2date.

> We should set things so they work similar to how the toolserver
> handles MySQL authentication with .my.cnf files.  The equivalent for
> postgres are .pgpass files that reside in the user home directories.
 >
> Also, not everyone has an account yet.  If granted the right
> privileges (don't need root access), then I can work on this in the
> next few days.
Is there a difference between having an standard-toolserver-account and 
having one for cassini? I'm able do login to willow as well as directly 
to cassini and afaik the homedirs are shared anyway.

Peter