1 Setting Up RPMForge Repository

RPMForge repository (http://dag.wieers.com) is the biggest rpm respository for RHEL, CentOS for all versions. To enable RPMForge respository run following command. The following command directly install rpm from http://dag.wieers.com site.

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

This rpm will add necessary files in our repository configuration and can be viewed at /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

2 Install MyTOP

Use yum to install mytop on your machine

yum -y install mytop

It will install mytop with all necessary pre-requisite to run mytop.

3 Running MyTOP

To run use

mytop

if you have restricted access using password then

mytop -u root -p <password> -h localhost

NOTE: You may get following error in CentOS 5.3
Error in option spec: “long|!”

To fix this do following.

chmod 755 /usr/bin/mytop
vi /usr/bin/mytop

Search for the line

“long|!”              => \$config{long_nums},

Change it to by commenting using #

#”long|!”              => \$config{long_nums},

Now run the command again and it will run fine and you can see mytop giving all the information about you mysql server.

mytop