Upgrading MaxScale from 1.1 to 1.2

This document describes upgrading MaxScale from version 1.1.1 to 1.2 and the major differences in the new version compared to the old version. The major changes can be found in the Changelog.txt file in the installation directory and the official release notes in the ReleaseNotes.txt file.

Installation

Before starting the upgrade, we recommend you back up your configuration, log and binary log files in /usr/local/mariadb-maxscale/.

Upgrading MaxScale will copy the MaxScale.cnf file in /usr/local/mariadb-maxscale/etc/ to /etc/ and renamed to maxscale.cnf. Binary log files are not automatically copied and should be manually moved from /usr/local/mariadb-maxscale to /var/lib/maxscale/.

File location changes

MaxScale 1.2 follows the FHS-standard and installs to /usr/ and /var/ subfolders. Here are the major changes and file locations.

• Configuration files are located in /etc/ and use lowercase letters: /etc/maxscale.cnf
• Binary files are in /usr/bin/
• Libraries and modules are in /usr/lib64/maxscale/. If you are using custom modules, please make sure they are in this directory before starting MaxScale.
• Log files are in the var/log/maxscale/ folder
• MaxScale's PID file is located in /var/run/maxscale/maxscale.pid
• Data files and other persistent files are in /var/lib/maxscale/

Running MaxScale without root permissions

MaxScale can run as a non-root user with the 1.2 version. RPM and DEB packages install the maxscale user and maxscale group which are used by the init scripts and systemd configuration files. If you are installing from a binary tarball, you can run the postinst script included in it to manually create these groups.