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MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)              MySQL Database System             MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)

NAME
       mysql_plugin - configure MySQL server plugins
SYNOPSIS
       mysql_plugin [options] plugin {ENABLE|DISABLE}
DESCRIPTION
       The mysql_plugin utility enables MySQL administrators to manage which
       plugins a MySQL 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.
       mysql_plugin is available as of MySQL 5.5.16.
       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 MySQL 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, as described in Section 5.1.8.1,
       "Installing and Uninstalling 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 MySQL 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. For
       information about option files, see Section 4.2.3.3, "Using Option
       Files".
       mysql_plugin Options
       o   --help, -?
           Display a help message and exit.
       o   --basedir=path, -b path
           The server base directory.
       o   --datadir=path, -d path
           The server data directory.
       o   --my-print-defaults=path, -b path
           The path to the my_print_defaults program.
       o   --mysqld=path, -b path
           The path to the mysqld server.
       o   --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 MySQL programs that support
           --no-defaults.
       o   --plugin-dir=path, -p path
           The server plugin directory.
       o   --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.
       o   --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 MySQL programs that support
           --print-defaults.
       o   --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.
       o   --version, -V
           Display version information and exit.
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
       reserved.
       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
       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
       may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).

MySQL 5.5                         01/16/2013                   MYSQL_PLUGIN(1)