Re: Maia on centos 8

While the goals and priorities of technion differ from ours, they are
welcome to incorporate any of the fixes from our fork.

Jake



On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:26 AM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]>
> 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]>
>> 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]>
>> 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 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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