Make gpg-signing work with WebStorm git commit

Add these two lines, on ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

no-tty
use-agent

Install the following tools using brew:

$ brew install gnupg gnupg2 pinentry-mac

Add this in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf (gpg-agent.conf not yet existing on my machine):

pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac 

Run this:

$ git config --global gpg.program $(which gpg)

Solution seen here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-110261


Happy Coding!

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.254.176:3306

In macOS environment there is no explicit file for my.cnf. It's weird, before I introduced .my.cnf in home directory, applications can connect to remote host (e.g., 192.168.254.176) just fine.

The solution is to force the TCP on .my.cnf

[client]
protocol=tcp

Restart:

$ brew services restart mysql

It turns out that the MySQL installation on my machine is using socket. What's odd is I'm not using localhost (e.g., 192.168.254.176) for database connection's host despite server and client are same machine, yet MySQL still resorts to using socket.

On Unix, if you are running the server and the client on the same machine, connect to localhost. For connections to localhost, MySQL programs attempt to connect to the local server by using a Unix socket file, unless there are connection parameters specified to ensure that the client makes a TCP/IP connection
-- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/problems-connecting.html

Enabling MySQL's binary logging on macOS

MySQL 5.7.16, installed on macOS Sierra using Homebrew.

With Homebrew installation, it's convenient to access mysql commandline. Whereas using its DMG installer, the mysql commandline can only be accessed using its full path.

mysql --user root --password -e 'SHOW VARIABLES' | grep log_bin

By default, log_bin is disabled

log_bin OFF
log_bin_basename 
log_bin_index 
log_bin_trust_function_creators OFF
log_bin_use_v1_row_events OFF
sql_log_bin ON

Create directory where to put the binary logging files and its index:

sudo mkdir /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/
sudo touch /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/binlogging.index
sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/

Check the binary logging directory:

ls -la /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/

Output:

drwxr-xr-x   3 jack  wheel   102 Dec  1 19:55 .
drwxr-xr-x  60 root  wheel  2040 Dec  1 19:55 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 jack  wheel     0 Dec  1 19:55 binlogging.index

Create .my.cnf in user's home path:

vim ~/.my.cnf

.my.cnf content:

[mysqld]
log-bin=/var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/binlogging
server-id=1

Restart MySQL:

mysql.server restart

Check if the binary logging is enabled:

mysql --user root --password -e 'SHOW VARIABLES' | grep log_bin

Output:

log_bin ON
log_bin_basename /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/binlogging
log_bin_index /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/binlogging.index
log_bin_trust_function_creators OFF
log_bin_use_v1_row_events OFF
sql_log_bin ON

Check the binary logging directory:

ls -la /var/log/kel-mysql-log-bin/

Output:

drwxr-xr-x   4 jack  wheel   136 Dec  1 19:57 .
drwxr-xr-x  60 root  wheel  2040 Dec  1 19:55 ..
-rw-r-----   1 jack  wheel   154 Dec  1 19:57 binlogging.000001
-rw-r-----   1 jack  wheel    44 Dec  1 19:57 binlogging.index

log_bin variable is not something that is being set directly, it's a read-only variable. To turn the log_bin on, the binary logging directory and index must be specified.


Happy Coding!