On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:28 PM, James Harper wrote: >> >> I agree. However, using an optional 'third-party' tool is quite >> acceptable to all. I refer here to Fruity and Nagios. The use >> of Fruity is optional. It produces plain text configuration files >> to be used by Nagios. That is the approach I would endorse >> for Bacula should anyone desire to code such a beast. >> > > Maybe a compromise would be to modify the 'include' statement so that > could include an normal bacula config file (as it is now), an xml > file, > or from a database. If you were doing any of the latter two then your > main bacula.conf file would just contain a single include line. It > might > also contain some bare essential config stuff so that the same config > could still be used for disaster recovery, but essentially everything > would be in your included data. > > That way we could all have the configuration mechanism we want without > it upsetting anyone else. We could also have any combination of the > above we wanted. > > I have never looked closely at the configuration code, but I believe > that the stuff that actually does the parsing is pretty well > contained, > so I don't know that such a feature would be that intrusive. > > Kern: If someone submitted a patch to allow this would you consider > accepting it? (if not, the point is probably moot :) Is this > something a > director plugin could accomplish?
Kern has made his position on clear text configuration files in the past. He is strongly in favour of them. I answer on this behalf because he is not on this list. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
