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@@ -53,6 +53,36 @@ grant tables. The my.cnf file will installed from one of many possible places, see manifests/server/base.pp for possible locations for managing this. +Configuration snippets +---------------------- + +To make managing mysql configuration easier, you can use the define +mysql::conf. Note, though that there currently is only the Debian default +configuration file that includes files in /etc/mysql/conf.d/. + +For example: + +mysql::conf { 'test': + ensure => present, + section => 'mysqld', + config => { + table_cache => '15000', + skip_slave => '', + something => '""', + } +} + +The above example shows two possibilities for empty values. + + * If a value only has an empty value in the hash passed to the config + parameter, that will define a boolean option in mysql by simply mentioning + the option name with no equal sign. So in the above, you'd have a line that + contains only "skip_slave". + + * If you need to declare a variable with an empty value (e.g. with the equal + sign), you can use two quotes as the option's value. In the above example, + you'd have a line that looks like "something=". + Backups ------- @@ -68,6 +98,16 @@ Optimizing tables If you wish mysql to periodically optimize tables, set the "$mysql_optimize_cron = true" variable before you include mysql::server. +By default, time of execution for the optimization script will be randomly +chosen (and will stay consistant for a server) any day between midnight and +7:00 AM. If you wish to force at least one value, you can use the following +parameters to the mysql::server class (all values are used directly as a +cronjob value so they should be set within cron value space): + +* optimize_day => sets the day of the week (integer value) during which the script will run. +* optimize_hour => sets the hour at which the optimization script will run. +* optimize_minute => sets the minute in the hour at which the script will run. + Munin ----- |