Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread compdoc
>> OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer >> supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed >> to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). Guess I should have mentioned, there are some alternatives: Figure out what your bacula install requires to get working. If it's not using m

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread compdoc
>I do not know HOW the value of the database type is determined, for >this particular parameter, nor why it is even truly necessary to be >passing in the database type to this script. The person who packaged bacula that you installed has total control of everything: where the files go, which dat

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread Marc Chamberlin
On 4/25/2013 9:14 AM, compdoc wrote: >> OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer >> supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed >> to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). > If its compatible, then it should accept the same commands as mysql. What > happens if you type: > > mysq

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread Marc Chamberlin
On 4/25/2013 9:17 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> Ping? No suggestions? Should I report this to a different group or >> submit a bug report? >> > I am not sure if what you described was a bug. Did your distro say the > bacula packages were for mysql but had instead been enabled to use > postgresql (wh

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread compdoc
> OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer supplying MySQL. Instead they >are supplying MariaDB which is supposed to be 100% >compatible with MySQL (so they claim). In order to be compatible, MariaDB would have to accept the same commands that you type for Mysql. You'd be able to run the bacula mysql scripts

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread compdoc
> OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer > supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed > to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). If its compatible, then it should accept the same commands as mysql. What happens if you type: mysql -u root -p ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread John Drescher
> Ping? No suggestions? Should I report this to a different group or > submit a bug report? > I am not sure if what you described was a bug. Did your distro say the bacula packages were for mysql but had instead been enabled to use postgresql (which should be preferred for larger networks). If it

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-25 Thread Marc Chamberlin
Ping? No suggestions? Should I report this to a different group or submit a bug report? Marc. On 4/22/2013 12:00 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote: > This may be a Linux (openSuSE) distro error, but not knowing the > internals of how Bacula gets configured, I thought I would ask my > question her

[Bacula-users] Questions about a mysql configuration issue I encountered

2013-04-22 Thread Marc Chamberlin
This may be a Linux (openSuSE) distro error, but not knowing the internals of how Bacula gets configured, I thought I would ask my question here first. I get Bacula from the openSuSE (12.3) repositories, and as such I do not have to compile/install Bacula from source, theoretically. The reposi