Re: Maia on centos 8

https://github.com/einheit/maia_mailguard_1.04a

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:35 AM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ah. I wasn't aware you had created another fork. Thanks!
>
> On 3/29/20 11:31 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> 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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