[chef] Re: Design of MYSQL-cookbook breaks systems

[Tobias Unsleber < >]

Am 06.08.2015 um 13:45 schrieb Tobias Unsleber:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the mysql-cookbook to manage mysql at our servers.
>
> What cause trouble is that this cookbook breaks the system in
> terms of two aspects:
>
> - Since the service is named mysql-<instance> and the default
> instance "mysql" is no longer existing. So at every update the
> update is failling because the scripts try to use a service called
> "mysql" which is failing
>
> - Since the Sockets are named according like the configured instance
> the default sockets are no longer available and many software
> does no longer work by default.
>
> -----
>
> Furthermore the mysql-cookbook is in general quite fine. Good to manage the
> server in general, users, privileges and databases. I probably won't
> ever need
> the multiple-instance feature. It's OK if it does not get in my way.
>
> At the moment I try workarounds to fix the issues. For the Sockets I
> modify the
> startup scripts in the cookbook to have created links to the
> instance-socket for
> the different operating systems to the expected default location.
>
> For the startup script issue, I working on some fix right now.
>
> Does anybody have an advice for this issue?
>
> Regards,
> Tobias
>


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