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...pt, currently run a couple times an hour from cron, that pulls data from an old Windows DB by rsync, converts it to SQL, and injects it into a MySQL DB for display in a LAMP-based app. (Make and Perl are also involved to minimize the number of tables touched and to clean up the SQL generated by Pxlib.) I'd like to add the ability to refresh the data immediately from the web app, but I don't want it to trample on the periodic script and corrupt the data. I figure the ideal way to do this is to run the script in a loop in its own process, waiting on a semaphore that times out at the...

...ow does "make install" with autotools decide which directory libraries should go in? I haven't packaged anything since 32-bit (ie. a few years ago), and I now need to re-package a new version of a library I'd used before with CentOS 6 32-bit on CentOS 7 64-bit. The library is pxlib (http://pxlib.sourceforge.net/), which reads and writes old Borland Paradox database files. I've managed to fix 64-bit issues in the C sources. When I go to package the RPM, it runs configure and make and "make DESTDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT} install". The install step puts the resultin...

I'm looking for a source RPM for docbook-to-man. I'm trying to build/install pxlib: <http://pxlib.sourceforge.net/installation.php> The tarball is set up to create an RPM, but it fails to convert its SGML documentation to man pages because I'm missing docbook-to-man. I found the latter here: <http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/tools/dtm/> I'm hoping someo...