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Yuri Timofeev wrote:
> Hi
>
> During development the prototype of the my new system (Webacula 5.5),
> I tried to parse the bacula-dir.conf.
> However, this is probably not possible with simple regexp's.
> It turned out that some applications, for example, Webmin does this
> with a regexp.
>
> But they're doing it wrong!
>
> For example, here is test configuration (which is written according to
> "Bacula Main Reference: Customizing the Configuration Files")
> contains no errors in terms of Bacula (I checked it) but it would be
> wrong parsed (I have not tested it, but I'm sure of it) by 3rd parties
> parsers (not native) :
>
> -----------------------------------------
> # comment1
> # comment2
>
> c o n s o l e
> { Name=name1; Password = "p; \\\a s s w o rd"; J o b A C L = *all\*
> }Con sole { N a m e = "name 2"; Pass word = "password"; JobACL =
> job/\1, job2, job3
> }
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
>
> I.e. in other words to parse with regexp any Bacula configuration will
> be very difficult.
Yes it is very difficult, at least with a RegEx. For the record, for an
in-house interface I wrote, I did it by making bacula-dir.conf contain just:
@|"sh -c 'for f in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.d/*.conf ; do echo @${f} ; done'"
and then maintain one file per stanza in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.d. Each stanza
is in a file named <type>.<name>.conf, so we end up with files like:
client.wwsv01.conf
job.wwsv01.conf
job.restorefiles.conf
pool.weekly.conf
And I wrote some PHP code to parse an individual stanza into an internal data
structure. From a web interface, modifying an individual object/stanza then
becomes a matter of just rewriting the single config file, rather than having to
parse/rewrite the entire bacula-dir config file. If the web interface doesn't
have capability (or need) to write to a given stanza, then those files can be in
whatever format is desired (with weird spacing etc). And if the web interface
is writing to the files, it can write in a consistent easily parseable format
that is valid for bacula, but makes it simpler for it to read later. It just
kinda works; sure, an admin could screw it up, but when is that never a problem?
That may not help if you're wanting to parse an existing bacula-dir.conf though,
so I may be wasting my breath here :)
- --
Craig Miskell
Senior Systems Administrator
Opus International Consultants
Phone: +64 4 471 7209
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that the network is down.- Peter Corlett, in the Monastery
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