Yes, this is nice. This is the kind of approach that I would like to encourage
for those who need it.
Also after thinking about it a bit more, I'm convinced that as a base
installation (i.e. my Makefiles), the daemons and the interface programs are
all system administration tools. They can be adapted for users, but I feel
that should be an explicit act of each administrator due to the security
concerns.
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:49, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > However one thing that _has_
> > > bothered me is that when running bconsole, it does not by default look
> > > at /etc/bacula/ for a bconsole.conf file. So when I run it I have to
> > > manually point to the config file with -c. Current directory is viewed
> > > for a conf file, it just makes sense to me that the /etc/bacula/
> > > directory would be checked too. So perhaps this change could be
> > > piggybacked on as well?
> >
> > Yes, *please*.
>
> Well, it's probably easy to write a wrapper around all of the binaries,
> like the (modified) bconsole wrapper below. But that's ugly. I'm not
> so sure whether changing the lookup from "." to $prefix/etc/bacula is
> convenient in all situations. E.g. on a rescue CD. Maybe a combination
> of $HOME/.bacula with a bacula.conf file in it that has a "configdir"
> directive. I wish i had kept my mouth shut.
>
>
> (mk)
>
> 8<------------8<------------8<------------8<------------8<------------8<
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> prefix=/opkg # from the --prefix option
>
> if [ $# = 1 ]; then
> case "$1" in
> -* ) ;;
> * ) set -- -c $1.conf ;;
> esac
> fi
> # The following works, because bconsole accepts multiple '-c' options.
> # The last '-c' wins.
> exec $prefix/sbin/bconsole -c $prefix/etc/bacula/bconsole.conf "$@"
>
> 8<------------8<------------8<------------8<------------8<------------8<
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Best regards,
Kern
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