On Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 04:11, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got your Python script working but only if I include the -C > <baculabackupreport.ini> in the command line. Otherwise it complains that > email is missing, cannot connect to dB and a few other things. It looks like > it's not finding the configuration file that I put in my home directory. With > -C it does find it. > > Is there no default for this parameter? > > -Chris Wilkinson Hello Chris, Since there are defaults for practically everything (eg: the db name, db user, db password, number of hours, days, etc), the only variable required which cannot have a default is the email address. This must be set on the command line, or as an environment variable, or in a [section] of a config file. Since the config file is not required, there is no default for it, and it can be located anywhere you like. I could think of no "correct" location for a default config file since there is Bacula Enterprise and several different package maintainers for Bacula Community, each choosing different places for "bacula stuff" to reside. :) Also, you will notice that in the example config file, the [DEFAULT] section is basically blank - because everything already has some default setting. If you have a different name for your Bacula catalog DB, or you have set a DB user other than the default 'bacula', or you have set a password other than the default "<no password>", then you can set them in the environment, on the command line, or in a specified [section] of a specified config file. So, if you specify just the -C /path/to/config/file and -S <name of [section] in config file>, everything else can be set/overridden in the config file, keeping your cron line nice and short/clean. :) Hope this helps, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com
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