It recently came up that it would be helpful if we had a cheat sheet to find out the machine names for any given UNIX. I knew these off the top of my head but it would be great if people added more as comments. HP/HP-UX: /bin/uname -i IBM/AIX: /bin/uname -m SGI/IRIX: /sbin/sysinfo -s Sun/Solaris: /usr/ucb/hostid

An introduction to Gearman (a client/server infrastructure for distributed workers) and its practical application to replication setup. By combining the ease of use of MySQL Sandbox and the flexibility of Gearman, you can ger remote replication setup with low risk of mistakes.