With the popular MySQL server module from Puppet Labs, it sets $provider to mariadb on Oracle Linux 7.x, which causes issues if I am not using Maria, but instead using Percona. The issue is in params.pp. I was wondering if there is a way to force the $provider to be mysql. I could try creating a symlink to mariadb.log, to get around this issue but it is ugly...
Here's the code from params.pp:
case $::osfamily {
'RedHat': {
case $::operatingsystem {
'Fedora': {
if versioncmp($::operatingsystemrelease, '19') >= 0 or $::operatingsystemrelease == 'Rawhide' {
$provider = 'mariadb'
} else {
$provider = 'mysql'
}
}
/^(RedHat|CentOS|Scientific|OracleLinux)$/: {
if versioncmp($::operatingsystemmajrelease, '7') >= 0 {
$provider = 'mariadb'
} else {
$provider = 'mysql'
}
}
default: {
$provider = 'mysql'
}
}
Source: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/blob/master/manifests/params.pp
Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory # rb_sysopen - /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log at /[redacted]/modules/mysql/manifests/server/installdb.pp:25
Bsically, I am looking for a graceful workaround via Puppet over rides. But not experienced enough to know how to implement it. :(
Thanks!
That you are trying to work through a provider suggests that you are approaching this through resources, such as mysql::db, but that's never going to work if the server is not configured to match. The $provider variable you highlight in the question is both set and used only inside class mysql::params, and only for certain OS families even there. It is an ordinary variable belonging to the class, not a class parameter, and, being undocumented, it should be considered private to that class. In any event, no, Puppet provides no way to override that variable's value without modifying the module.
It is class mysql::server that provides the avenue for configuring for an alternative MySQL fork. It offers numerous parameters by which you can configure all the details, but no once-for-all mechanism for setting a different MySQL personality. I think you will find that if you do that correctly then all the resource types will just work. In any case, you should not be declaring any resources of private resource types, nor overriding the properties of resources you do not declare.
An example covering almost the exact use case you've asked about is presented in the module docs as Install Percona Server on CentOS. Note that I have replicated the heading from the docs, but the word "Install" in it is a bit misleading. That should not only install the server, but set the stage for all the module's resource types to manage it.
I gather that you would prefer a simpler way to configure for a non-default fork, but the module does not presently offer one.
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I can't seem to find a solution to access a MySQL server from an Objective-C Mac OS project (which uses ARC).
I tried to use the MySQL framework that Sequel Pro provides, but that crashes (EXC_i386_GPFLT) my App whenever I just create a connection object:
SPMySQLConnection *conn = [[SPMySQLConnection alloc] init];
I don't know whether that is a bug in the framework or if I need to do something else in order to use it.
I tried a few other libraries (like MySqueakQl) but none of them are ARC compatible.
Also I tried to link to libmysqlclient.a directly, but if I copy that library into my project, I get a code signing error; if I just link to the .a in /usr/local/mysql/lib/, I get another error: dyld: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib ... Reason: image not found. I have to admit that I have zero experince with using third-party libraries (whether .a or .dylib) and probably didn't do it right.
I'm a bit surprised that there doesn't seem to be an up-to-date (read: working) solution out there. I know, consumer apps rather use Core Data, but I have to access out company database server.
Has anybody seen a solution (libary?) that works more or less "out of the box"? I'd be willing to pay for something that actually works.
A good tutorial on how to use .a libraries in Xcode projects that would also help me to understand where the dylib error comes from would also be very helpful.
Problem solved. I probably made some mistake when including the library.
The right steps to do this:
Drag the libmysqlclient.a library into your project window
Make sure you set Copy items if needed to Yes, and that it is added to your main target
Drag a folder containing the headers (found under /usr/local/mysql/include) into your project window
Again, make sure you set Copy items if needed to Yes and the correct target is checked.
Then:
#import "mysql.h"
- (BOOL) mySQLTest {
MYSQL connection;
mysql_init(&connection);
if(!mysql_real_connect(&connection,
[self.host UTF8String],
[self.user UTF8String],
[self.password UTF8String],
[self.database UTF8String],
self.port,
NULL,
0)) {
return NO;
}
// ... work with the DB
mysql_close(&connection);
return YES;
}
Works like a charm.
I have no idea why on my former attempts I got an error about the dylib; I never used it (only the static library).
The code signing issue may have been just a bug or one-time quirk in Xcode.
I am writing an app that runs from the browser. However, some model functions are also called from the Yii2 console. Therefore, I am getting errors when trying to access variables that are set in the GUI.
Is it possible to tell which mode I am in? Is there some environment variable automatically set, or should I just set some session variable in the console app to indicate the state?
You can use
if (Yii::$app instanceof \yii\console\Application)
for console, and
if (Yii::$app instanceof \yii\web\Application)
for web.
Correct variant
Yii::$app->request->isConsoleRequest
There is a simpler way to figure this out without going through the Yii objects
if (php_sapi_name() == "cli") {
return;
}
...and it works for all PHP scripts
...and it is lighter
By default for console:
Yii::$app->id == 'basic-console'
And for web application:
Yii::$app->id == 'basic'
Yii::$app->id stores the id of the loaded configuration params. By default for console application it is 'basic-console' and for web application it is 'basic' (defined in configuration file)
Yii2 provides a number of different classes for application's console and for those of type web. In addition to this division of the mode of operation of the classes, there are also a set of rules governing the organization of the code of the application. The first, fundamental, it is the respect of giving the MVC Model object information, to view the management interface with the user and, finally, to the controller the role of coordination among them. In your case it seems to sense that a piece of code runs in console but referring to classes that provide a Web interface. Probably because in some Model classes were introduced with functions with HTML or other code that should not be there. If you need two separate applications should precisely separate applications that use a type controls
yii\console\Controller
and another that uses controller type web
yii\web\Controller.
Obviously Model classes will be common and, thanks to separate controller, be sure to invoke View appropriate to the type of user interface in use. I Hope this could be useful.
Works for nginx and apache:
function isConsole()
{
return 'cli' == php_sapi_name() || !array_key_exists('REQUEST_URI', $_SERVER);
}
Pure PHP:
global $argv;
if (empty($argv)) {
// Browser mode
}
else {
// Cli mode
}
It seems like a very common issue with SSIS packages is releasing a package to Production that ends up with running the wrong connectionstring parameters. This could happen by making any one of many mistakes or ommisions. As a result, I find it helpful to dump all ConnectionString values to a log file. This helps me understand what connectionstrings were actually applied to the package at run time.
Now, I am considering having my packages check to see if every connnection object in my package had its connectionstring overriden by an entry in the config file and if not, return a warning or even fail the package. This is to allow easier configuration by extracting all environment variables to a config file. If a connectionstring is never overridden, this risks that a package, when run in production, may use development settings or a package, when run in a non production setting when testing, may accidentily be run against production.
I'd like to borrow from anyone who may have tried to do this. I'd also be interested in suggestions on how to accomplish this with minimal work.
Thx
Technical question 1 - what are my connection string
This is an easy question to answer. In your package, add a Script Task and enumerate through the Connections collection. I fire the OnInformation event and if I had this scheduled, I'd be sure to have the /rep iew options in my dtexec to ensure I record Information, Errors and Warnings.
namespace TurnDownForWhat
{
using System;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;
using System.Windows.Forms;
/// <summary>
/// ScriptMain is the entry point class of the script. Do not change the name, attributes,
/// or parent of this class.
/// </summary>
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.SSISScriptTaskEntryPointAttribute]
public partial class ScriptMain : Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.VSTARTScriptObjectModelBase
{
public void Main()
{
bool fireAgain = false;
foreach (var item in Dts.Connections)
{
Dts.Events.FireInformation(0, "SCR Enumerate Connections", string.Format("{0}->{1}", item.Name, item.ConnectionString), string.Empty, 0, ref fireAgain);
}
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
}
enum ScriptResults
{
Success = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Success,
Failure = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure
};
}
}
Running that on my package, I can see I had two Connection managers, CM_FF and CM_OLE along with their connection strings.
Information: 0x0 at SCR Enum, SCR Enumerate Connections: CM_FF->C:\ssisdata\dba_72929.csv
Information: 0x0 at SCR Enum, SCR Enumerate Connections: CM_OLE->Data Source=localhost\dev2012;Initial Catalog=tempdb;Provider=SQLNCLI11;Integrated Security=SSPI;
Add that to ... your OnPreExecute event for all the packages and no one sees it but every reports back.
Technical question 2 - Missed configurations
I'm not aware of anything that will allow a package to know it's under configuration. I'm sure there's an event as you will see in your Information/Warning messages that a package attempted to apply a configuration, didn't find one and is going to retain it's design time value. Information - I'm configuring X via Y. Warning - tried to configure X but didn't find Y. But how to have a package inspect itself to find that out, I have no idea.
That said, I've seen reference to a property that fails package on missed configuration. I'm not seeing it now, but I'm certain it exists in some crevice. You can supply the /w parameter to dtexec which treats warnings as errors and really, warnings are just errors that haven't grown up yet.
Unspoken issue 1 - Permissions
I had a friend who botched an XML config file as part of their production deploy. Their production server started consuming data from a dev server. Bad things happened. It sounds like you have had a similar situation. The resolution is easy, insulate your environments. Are you using the same service account for your production class SQL Server boxes and dev/test/uat/qa/load/etc? STOP. Make a new one. Don't allow prod to talk to any boxes that aren't in their tier of service. Someone bones a package and doesn't set a configuration? First of all, you'll catch it when it goes from dev to something-before-production because that tier wouldn't be able to talk to anything else that's not that level. But if you're in the ultra cheap shop and you've only got dev and prod, so be it. Non-configured package goes to prod. Prod SQL Agent fires off the package. Package uses default connection manager and fails validation because it can't talk to the dev sales database.
Unspoken issue 2 - template
What's your process when you have a new package to build? Does your team really start from scratch? There are so many ways to solve this problem but the core concept is to define your best practices for Configuration, Logging, Package Protection Level, Transaction levels, etc into some easily consumable form. Maybe that's 3 starter packages: one for raw acquisition, maybe one stages and conforms the data and the last one moves data from conformed into the final destination. Teammates then simply have to pick one to start from and fill in the spots that need it. If they choose to do their own thing, that's the stick you beat them with when their package fails to run in production because they didn't follow the standard path.
There are other approaches here. If you're a strong .NET crew, you can gen your template packages that way. At this point, I create my templates with Biml and use that to drive basic package creation.
If I am understanding you correctly the below solution should work.
My suggestion to you is to turn on the Do not save sensitive option for the ProtectionLevel property at the top level of the package.
This will require you to use package configurations for every connection, otherwise it will not have the credentials to make a connection.
I am using Free Pascal (Lazarus) to develop a simple server daemon. The problem I am facing is that the TEventLog component does not write to the systemlog.
I use the following code:
EventLog1.LogType := ltSystem;
EventLog1.Active := True;
EventLog1.Log('Application has started!');
Instead of writing to systemlog it creates a file with the name as the executable and writes there.
Is there any other way I can write to the system log ? Is openlog defined in any unit I can use ?
(Assuming you use a *nix and the most recent 2.6.2 version).
No, libc log* functions seem only declared in the implementation of eventlog. Maybe they are in unit libc, but that is mostly unsupported, and linux/32bit only.
Check some assumptions:
Is active false before you set logtype, otherwise the active:=true might not recheck it.
you want to write system log, do you have enough privileges for that?
Do you see anything with strace/ktrace/truss ?
Scenario: I am using Managed Extensibility Framework to load plugins (exports) at runtime based on an interface contract defined in a separate dll. In my Visual Studio solution, I have 3 different projects: The host application, a class library (defining the interface - "IPlugin") and another class library implementing the interface (the export - "MyPlugin.dll").
The host looks for exports in its own root directory, so during testing, I build the whole solution and copy Plugin.dll from the Plugin class library bin/release folder to the host's debug directory so that the host's DirectoryCatalog will find it and be able to add it to the CompositionContainer. Plugin.dll is not automatically copied after each rebuild, so I do that manually each time I've made changes to the contract/implementation.
However, a couple of times I've run the host application without having copied (an updated) Plugin.dll first, and it has thrown an exception during composition:
Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions for more information
This is of course due to the fact that the Plugin.dll it's trying to import from implements a different version of IPlugin, where the property/method signatures don't match. Although it's easy to avoid this in a controlled and monitored environment, by simply avoiding (duh) obsolete IPlugin implementations in the plugin folder, I cannot rely on such assumptions in the production environment, where legacy plugins could be encountered.
The problem is that this exception effectively botches the whole Compose action and no exports are imported. I would have preferred that the mismatching IPlugin implementations are simply ignored, so that other exports in the catalog(s), implementing the correct version of IPlugin, are still imported.
Is there a way to accomplish this? I'm thinking either of several potential options:
There is a flag to set on the CompositionContainer ("ignore failing imports") prior to or when calling Compose
There is a similar flag to specify on the <ImportMany()> attribute
There is a way to "hook" on to the iteration process underlying Compose(), and be able to deal with each (failed) import individually
Using strong name signing to somehow only look for imports implementing the current version of IPlugin
Ideas?
I have also run into a similar problem.
If you are sure that you want to ignore such "bad" assemblies, then the solution is to call AssemblyCatalog.Parts.ToArray() right after creating each assembly catalog. This will trigger the ReflectionTypeLoadException which you mention. You then have a chance to catch the exception and ignore the bad assembly.
When you have created AssemblyCatalog objects for all the "good" assemblies, you can aggregate them in an AggregateCatalog and pass that to the CompositionContainer constructor.
This issue can be caused by several factors (any exceptions on the loaded assemblies), like the exception says, look at the ExceptionLoader to (hopefully) get some idea
Another problem/solution that I found, is when using DirectoryCatalog, if you don't specify the second parameter "searchPattern", MEF will load ALL the dlls in that folder (including third party), and start looking for export types, that can also cause this issue, a solution is to have a convention name on all the assemblies that export types, and specify that in the DirectoryCatalog constructor, I use *_Plugin.dll, that way MEF will only load assemblies that contain exported types
In my case MEF was loading a NHibernate dll and throwing some assembly version error on the LoaderException (this error can happen with any of the dlls in the directory), this approach solved the problem
Here is an example of above mentioned methods:
var di = new DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath("../../bin/"));
if (!di.Exists) throw new Exception("Folder not exists: " + di.FullName);
var dlls = di.GetFileSystemInfos("*.dll");
AggregateCatalog agc = new AggregateCatalog();
foreach (var fi in dlls)
{
try
{
var ac = new AssemblyCatalog(Assembly.LoadFile(fi.FullName));
var parts = ac.Parts.ToArray(); // throws ReflectionTypeLoadException
agc.Catalogs.Add(ac);
}
catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException ex)
{
Elmah.ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(ex);
}
}
CompositionContainer cc = new CompositionContainer(agc);
_providers = cc.GetExports<IDataExchangeProvider>();