Re: Maia on centos 8

Hi Jake,

    This is great news! Have you thought about pushing the code changes
to technion's Github repo? I'm sure Jason would be happy to review the
changes and accept them into his master branch.

On 3/28/20 10:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> The php fixes for 7.2 turned out to be not that extensive or complicated.
>
> I had to do to a few workarounds, but I've moved my maia instances
> over the new centos 8 installs, and so far everything is working as
> advertised. The new installs seem to be more responsive on the web
> interface, perhaps due to the use of php-mysqlnd, and the faster code
> of php 7 in general.
>
> Remaining issues -
> Had to revert from smarty 3 to Smarty 2.
> Pear failed to install htmlpurifier, so that was installed separately.
> Clamd dies when run from systemd, but runs fine when run from rc.local
> (or manually)
> selinux is in permissive mode. Need to come up with selinux policies
> to allow maia to run
>
> https://github.com/einheit/maia_mailguard_1.04a
>
> jake
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:30 PM Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     So far that looks like just deprecated syntax warnings and
>     notices, but nothing that necessarily breaks functionality.  I’d
>     expect that with older code that hasn’t been updated for PHP 7—it
>     may still work (you did get to “Success!”), but it’ll generate a
>     lot of complaints in the logs unless you change the log threshold
>     to ignore warnings and notices.
>
>     According to its “official” changelog, MDB2 was last updated in
>     2012 (v 2.5.0b5), so its maintainers are clearly not going to
>     update it for PHP 7.
>
>     That said, there’s a GitHub version that seems to be maintained
>     (as of 12 months ago) with PHP 7 fixes:
>
>     https://github.com/pear/MDB2
>
>
>>     On Mar 26, 2020, at 11:53 AM, jjs - mainphrame
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Simple test - 
>>
>>     OK, I'm going back to basics here with a simple test, comparing
>>     Centos 7 & php-5.4.16 with Centos 8 & php-7.2.11
>>
>>     They both have the same pear MDB2 modules installed. A simple DB
>>     connection test was run on both:
>>
>>     <?php
>>     require_once 'MDB2.php';
>>
>>     $dsn = 'mysqli://test:test@dbserv/test';
>>     $options = array(
>>         'debug' => 2,
>>         'result_buffering' => false,
>>     );
>>
>>     $mdb2 =& MDB2:: connect($dsn, $options);
>>     if (PEAR::isError($mdb2)) {
>>         die($mdb2->getMessage());
>>     } else {
>>         echo "Success!\n";
>>     }
>>
>>     $mdb2->disconnect();
>>     ?>
>>
>>     On Centos 7, it simply returns "Success!" 
>>     But on Centos 8 it returns this:
>>
>>     PHP Warning:  count(): Parameter must be an array or an object
>>     that implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php on line 826
>>
>>     Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that
>>     implements Countable in /usr/share/pear/MDB2.php on line 826
>>     PHP Notice:  Only variables should be assigned by reference in
>>     /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>
>>     Notice: Only variables should be assigned by reference in
>>     /root/dbtest.php on line 10
>>     Success!
>>
>>     Jake
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:46 AM jjs - mainphrame
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi folks,
>>
>>         maia works well for me on centos 7, but not on centos 8, with
>>         php-7.2
>>
>>         Actually the perl part is golden, and configtest.pl
>>         <http://configtest.pl/> works fine. But the php side of
>>         things is broken, and configtest.php fails miserably.
>>
>>         It looks the diverging code bases of php, smarty, pear and
>>         maia are the issue.
>>
>>         Has anybody had any success getting maia running with
>>         php-7.2? If so, I'd be curious what tweaks you had to make. I
>>         found that as installed, configtest.php says it can't connect
>>         to the database, but tcpdump shows that not a single packet
>>         gets sent to the specified db server.
>>
>>         If nobody has any new info, I guess I'll have to look at the
>>         old code and try to figure out what's broken.
>>
>>         Jake
>>
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