I came up against a hidden problem this morning. Well, hidden to me up until
now anyway. So in case anyone else finds themselves in the same boat - or
similar….
I’m running opendmarc here, and the reporting script runs a subroutine called
opendmarc-import where in it reads information from a mysql database.
I did a lot of updates yesterday. Added and subtracted things.
opendmarc-import worked fine yesterday, but on a clean restart this morning -
it wouldn’t run.
opendmarc-import: unable to connect to database: Can't connect to local
MySQL server through socket '/opt/local/var/run/mysql56/mysqld.sock' (2)
So I had a look at it and noticed immediately that it was looking at
/usr/bin/perl on the first line. That’s normally fine. Except in this case it
wasn’t.
Because yesterday I archived the existing perl binaries in /usr/bin, and put
links to /opt/local/bin/perl*
opendmarc-import barfed on that error - no mysql.sock, because I’mm running a
different mysql. Built by Homebrew and I have a LOT of databases in the system,
and have been reluctant to make any migration changes.
robert$ mysql -v
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 166
Server version: 5.6.25 Homebrew
So obviously what happened was this.
The macports perl wanted to talk to macports mysql - and couldn’t. It’s not
even running. A different mysql is running. So macports perl5-22 relies on
having macports mysql installed in the /opt hierarchy somewhere.
So my solution for now, was to replace the /usr/bin/perl* links to
/opt/local/bin/perl* with the original /usr/bin/perl binaries that I had
archived in a directory.
So now I have
Apple’s perl binaries in /usr/bin again - which so far everything else seems
happy with. Version P5.18 as it turns out.
Macport’s perl binaries in /opt/local/bin - which so far nothing seems to know
about, except things that look for it specifically, and don’t need mysql.
Version P5.22.
mysql
/usr/local/bin/mysql -> ../Cellar/mysql/5.6.25/bin/mysql
I don’t have macports mysql installed.
Also - When Apple updates it’s OS as it does from time to time, then what ever
is in /usr/bin will again be overwritten by their own latest version of perl.
So now I have to figure out if it’s worth moving to macports mysql, and how???
so then I can hopefully also switch perl versions…. or just leave well enough
alone.
Robert Chalmers
rob...@chalmers.com <mailto:rob...@chalmers.com>.au Quantum Radio:
http://tinyurl.com/lwwddov
Mac mini 6.2 - 2012, Intel Core i7,2.3 GHz, Memory:16 GB. El-Capitan 10.11. 2TB
Storage made up of -
Drive 0:HGST HTS721010A9E630. Upper bay. Drive 1:ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB. Lower
Bay
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