> Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most > of the other web apps do.
I thought of that, but the interaction to get a simple bit of data out that way seems to be rather difficult to parse. Consider getting the status of a given client: 1. Connect to the bacula-dir server via SSH 2. Run bconsole 3. Wait for a prompt 4. Enter "status" 5. Wait for a prompt 6. Enter "3" 7. Parse the list of client presented and figure out which option represents the client you want 8. Enter the number you parsed from step 7 9. Parse the output of that command into a program-usable form I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen parsing and instead lets me just do something like: 1. Connect to the bacula-dir daemon 2. Authenticate 3. Send a command like "show status client blah.foo.bar-fd" and have that return machine-parse-able status information, rather than human-readable information. Really, it's just a matter of cleaner code. I -could- do it by running bconsole and using a send/expect type system, but it seems like there ought to be a "better" way. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu Baskin School of Engineering 831-459-5354 UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering 317B -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
