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Chris Lee wrote:
| Switching gears for a moment...
| Jesse also brought up another subject which has occurred to me as
well.  For
| the daemons I completely agree with keeping the config files in
/etc/bacula
| but for console and gui programs it makes sense to me that these programs
| should look for config files in a hierarchial fashion the way other user
| programs do: look for the file specified with by -c, then
| "${HOME}/.bacula/bconsole.conf". then
"$(sysconfdir)/bacula/bconsole.conf".
|
| Having a "${HOME}/.bacula/" might seem unnecessary at this point, but I've
| also been thinking that some operators might like to tweak their own
console
| config especially if the console program(s) ever implement certain config
| options which have been mentioned before such as "Autodisplay = on" or
| having multiple console levels in the same config file and maybe switching
| between them within the console.  Plus, if any of the gui projects ever
| become sophisticated enough to need a complicated set of options stored in
| their config, this would be a good place for them if an operator/admin
| wanted to change gui options without affecting the default
(/etc/bacula) gui
| options.

I rather like this idea. ~/.bacula is useful -- as an example, it would
give the operator somewhere to store their x509 client certificates, if
they are using TLS.

- -landonf
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