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MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)            MariaDB Database System           MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)

NAME         top

       mysql_plugin - configure MariaDB server plugins

SYNOPSIS         top

       mysql_plugin [options] plugin {ENABLE|DISABLE}

DESCRIPTION         top

       The mysql_plugin utility enables MariaDB administrators to manage
       which plugins a MariaDB server loads. It provides an alternative to
       manually specifying the --plugin-load option at server startup or
       using the INSTALL PLUGIN and UNINSTALL PLUGIN statements at runtime.
       Depending on whether mysql_plugin is invoked to enable or disable
       plugins, it inserts or deletes rows in the mysql.plugin table that
       serves as a plugin registry. (To perform this operation, mysql_plugin
       invokes the MariaDB server in bootstrap mode. This means that the
       server must not already be running.) For normal server startups, the
       server loads and enables plugins listed in mysql.plugin
       automatically. For additional control over plugin activation, use
       --plugin_name options named for specific plugins.
       Each invocation of mysql_plugin reads a configuration file to
       determine how to configure the plugins contained in a single plugin
       library object file. To invoke mysql_plugin, use this syntax:
           mysql_plugin [options] plugin {ENABLE|DISABLE}
       plugin is the name of the plugin to configure.  ENABLE or DISABLE
       (not case sensitive) specify whether to enable or disable components
       of the plugin library named in the configuration file. The order of
       the plugin and ENABLE or DISABLE arguments does not matter.
       For example, to configure components of a plugin library file named
       myplugins.so on Linux or myplugins.dll on Windows, specify a plugin
       value of myplugins. Suppose that this plugin library contains three
       plugins, plugin1, plugin2, and plugin3, all of which should be
       configured under mysql_plugin control. By convention, configuration
       files have a suffix of .ini and the same basename as the plugin
       library, so the default configuration file name for this plugin
       library is myplugins.ini. The configuration file contents look like
       this:
           myplugins
           plugin1
           plugin2
           plugin3
       The first line in the myplugins.ini file is the name of the library
       object file, without any extension such as .so or .dll. The remaining
       lines are the names of the components to be enabled or disabled. Each
       value in the file should be on a separate line. Lines on which the
       first character is '#' are taken as comments and ignored.
       To enable the plugins listed in the configuration file, invoke
       mysql_plugin this way:
           shell> mysql_plugin myplugins ENABLE
       To disable the plugins, use DISABLE rather than ENABLE.
       An error occurs if mysql_plugin cannot find the configuration file or
       plugin library file, or if mysql_plugin cannot start the MariaDB
       server.
       mysql_plugin supports the following options, which can be specified
       on the command line or in the [mysqld] group of any option file. For
       options specified in a [mysqld] group, mysql_plugin recognizes the
       --basedir, --datadir, and --plugin-dir options and ignores others.
       mysql_plugin Options
       ·   --help, -?
           Display a help message and exit.
       ·   --basedir=path, -b path
           The server base directory.
       ·   --datadir=path, -d path
           The server data directory.
       ·   --my-print-defaults=path, -b path
           The path to the my_print_defaults program.
       ·   --mysqld=path, -b path
           The path to the mysqld server.
       ·   --no-defaults, -p
           Do not read values from the configuration file. This option
           enables an administrator to skip reading defaults from the
           configuration file.
           With mysql_plugin, this option need not be given first on the
           command line, unlike most other MariaDB programs that support
           --no-defaults.
       ·   --plugin-dir=path, -p path
           The server plugin directory.
       ·   --plugin-ini=file_name, -i file_name
           The mysql_plugin configuration file. Relative path names are
           interpreted relative to the current directory. If this option is
           not given, the default is plugin.ini in the plugin directory,
           where plugin is the plugin argument on the command line.
       ·   --print-defaults, -P
           Display the default values from the configuration file. This
           option causes mysql_plugin to print the defaults for --basedir,
           --datadir, and --plugin-dir if they are found in the
           configuration file. If no value for a variable is found, nothing
           is shown.
           With mysql_plugin, this option need not be given first on the
           command line, unlike most other MariaDB programs that support
           --print-defaults.
       ·   --verbose, -v
           Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
           This option can be used multiple times to increase the amount of
           information.
       ·   --version, -V
           Display version information and exit.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
       reserved., 2013-2015 MariaDB Foundation
       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
       modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
       This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.
       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
       along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software
       Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
       02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

SEE ALSO         top

       For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base,
       available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/

AUTHOR         top

       MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

COLOPHON         top

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MariaDB 10.1                     14/12/2015                  MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)