On 9/7/07, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7 Sep 2007 at 14:00, Hydro Meteor wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just successfully went through a configure, make and make install
> process
> > on an Intel Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 ... using
> > PostgreSQL 8.1.9 as a back end for Bacula (I have yet to configure the
> > database in the PostgreSQL cluster for Bacula but that's next).
> >
> > All of the binaries and configuration files that should have been made
> > appear to have been made (as I understand this is dependent on the
> options
> > given to configure). In the User's Guide (current version) Section
> > 7.19titled "Other Make Notes" there is a list of file that should be,
> > more or
> > less, installed if successful after a make install. One of them is a
> file
> > named merely:
> >
> > fd
> > >
> >
> > The file "fd" did not make on my system but I don't know what "fd" is or
> > does. Thus, I can not know if "fd" missing from my make install is an
> error
> > (should I expect it to be there?) or if it is correctly absent (such as
> > based on my configuration). I take it that fd has to do with the file
> daemon
> > but is there a deeper explanation of what this file is?
>
> fd is probably bacula-fd
>
> Perhaps that list is out of date.
Quite possible, although the documentation also separately refers to
"bacula-fd" so that's why I was somewhat confused by the separate mention of
"fd".
> I have confirmed the existence of these binary files but nothing else with
> > "fd" in its name resultant from the Bacula make install:
> >
> > bacula-fd
> > > bacula-ctl-fd
> > >
> >
> > Thank you for any further clarifications to the User's Guide.
>
> I think you're good to go
Dan, thanks. I think you're right. It looks like I have everything I need.
I'm about to configure the Bacula Catalog database in my PostgreSQL database
cluster. I noticed that there is mention in the User's Guide about what
encoding to choose, specifically excerpted from the User's Guide this text:
However, many Unix systems have filenames that are not encoded in UTF8,
> either because you have not set UTF8 as your default character set or
> because you have imported files from elsewhere (e.g. MacOS X). For this
> reason, Bacula uses SQL ASCII as the default encoding.
>
Just about everything I do on my Xserve running Mac OS X Server with hits
HFS+ and HFSX file systems that mount to it (regarding databases and also
setting bash profile environment variables) is biased toward UTF8 encoding.
For example, in the bash profile of the user accounts I have:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> export LANG
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
I see no reason to stay with Bacula's SQL ASCII default encoding but maybe
I'm missing good logic to do so? I think the User's Guide documentation is
somewhat confusing (from the perspective of someone running enterprise Apple
Xserve machines with Mac OS X Server) because why would I have "imported
files from elsewhere (e.g., MacOS X)" when in fact my entire system is
running the Mac OS X that is using Apple's HFS+ and HFSX file systems? Is it
common for people to import Mac files to other filesystems that are mounted
to other operating systems (e.g., import files from an HFS+ filesystem to,
say, ReiserFS running on a Linux distro)? If so maybe the next version of
the documentation could clarify this with some additional precise
articulation? Please note that I'm not trying to be overly critical of the
documentation, just trying to add some value to its next version. The Bacula
documentation I think is among the best I've ever seen for any open soure
project -- ranks up there with Apache IMHO!
Cheers,
H
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>
>
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