On Friday 19 March 2010 15:19:18 Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 3/19/2010 8:36 AM, Moray Henderson wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > Have you looked at Webmin (www.webmin.com)? Different approach, using a > web interface, but is otherwise similar to what you describe, It allows > configuring Bacula from a remote workstation with a browser, so doesn't > require X on the server.
Does it really makes it possible to alter configuration files? Because that's what they're aiming for, no? -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
