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NAME         top

       mariadb-plugin - configure MariaDB server plugins (mysql_plugin
       is now a symlink to mariadb-plugin)

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., 2013-2019 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
       02110-1335 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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