Silver Salonen wrote: >On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Moray Henderson wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> >> Would there be any interest in a text user interface configuration >> >> program for Bacula on Linux? We use an in-house system >> administration >> >> menu system for our Linux servers, and are considering switching our >> >> backup software to Bacula and writing a text-mode UI for it. If this >> >> does go ahead, I was wondering if it could be useful in the wider >> >> community. >> > >> >Eh, there's bacula-console which does that already? Or did you have >> >something else in mind? >> >> As far as I can make out, bacula-console requires X-Windows, which we >> are not running. I haven't seen anything suggesting it will run on a >> text console. If it does, it would simplify my job enormously. > >To me it sounded like you're looking for smth to change bacula's >configuration >with. So I didn't dare to say anything about bconsole, because this is to >do >some administrative tasks in running server, rather than to configure it. >Configuration is purely text-files based.
We're really aiming for a menu/forms interface to Bacula: there would be a configuration section for managing the config files, and also hopefully a more friendly front-end to bconsole. Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
