On 3/19/2010 9:31 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > 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? > >
Yes, it does alter configuration files. It also acts as a gui interface to bconsole for running jobs, status, etc. > -- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
