On 6/30/2010 9:54 AM, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Albin Vega wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> First let me say that I havent been using FreeBSD and Bacula before,
>> so its all a bit new to me, and I might do some beginners mistakes.
>> have installed Bacula server 5.0.0.1 on a FreeBsd 8 platform. Have
>> followed the instructions on http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula.php
>> and have run all the scripts and have the bacula pids running. But now
>> I have run into some trouble. When i try to start the bconsole on the
>> terminal window I get the message "Command not found".
>
> Be careful about following that guide: it is somewhat out of date. (For
> example, the sysutils/bacula port no longer exists, as I'm sure you
> discovered.)
>
>> I then open Gnome and run the bconsole command in a treminal window. I
>> get the message "Bconsole not properly installed"
>> I have located bconsole file in to places:
>> 1.
>> /usr/local/share/bacula/bconsole
>> This script looks like this:
>> bacupserver# more /usr/local/share/bacula/bconsole
>> #!/bin/sh
>> which dirname >/dev/null
>> # does dirname exit?
>> if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
>> cwd=`dirname $0`
>> if [ x$cwd = x. ]; then
>> cwd=`pwd`
>> fi
>> if [ x$cwd = x/usr/local/sbin ] ; then
>> echo "bconsole not properly installed."
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> fi
>> if [ x/usr/local/sbin = x/usr/local/etc ]; then
>> echo "bconsole not properly installed."
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> if [ $# = 1 ] ; then
>> echo "doing bconsole $1.conf"
>> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole -c $1.conf
>> else
>> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole -c /usr/local/etc/bconsole.conf
>> fi
>> Running this script returns message:
>> bconsole not properly installed.
>> 2.
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-5.0.0/scripts/bconsole
>> This script looks like this:
>> bacupserver# more
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-5.0.0/scripts/bconsole
>> #!/bin/sh
>> which dirname >/dev/null
>> # does dirname exit?
>> if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
>> cwd=`dirname $0`
>> if [ x$cwd = x. ]; then
>> cwd=`pwd`
>> fi
>> if [ x$cwd = x/sbin ] ; then
>> echo "bconsole not properly installed."
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> fi
>> if [ x/sbin = x/etc/bacula ]; then
>> echo "bconsole not properly installed."
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> if [ $# = 1 ] ; then
>> echo "doing bconsole $1.conf"
>> /sbin/bconsole -c $1.conf
>> else
>> /sbin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
>> fi
>> Runnig this script returns the message:
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-5.0.0/scripts/bconsole:
>> /sbin/bconsole: not found
>> I then located the bconsole.conf file:
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server/work/bacula-5.0.0/src/console/bconsole.conf
>> Tryed to manually move til to /etc/bacula but there is no /etc/bacula
>> directory...
>> I am running out of ideas on what to do here. Enybody have any ideas
>> on what to do? Would be very greatful I someone would point me in the
>> right direction....
>
> Did you install the sysutils/bacula-server port? (I.e., did you do a
> "make install" in the /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula-server directory to
> build and install it?) If you did, it should have installed bconsole for
> you under /usr/local. In my case, it shows it to be installed under
> /usr/local/sbin:
>
> backup# which bconsole
> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole
> backup# file /usr/local/sbin/bconsole
> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
> version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD
> 8.0 (800505), not stripped
>
> You shouldn't be trying to run the bconsole shell script; run
> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole directly.
>
> Under FreeBSD, ports avoid putting configuration directories in the base
> operating system directories, to avoid polluting the base system. The
> ports system tries to keep them separate, usually under /usr/local. So,
> Bacula installed from ports on FreeBSD will not use /etc/bacula, it uses
> /usr/local/etc. The bconsole installed knows to look in /usr/local/etc
> for configuration files.
>
> Note, when you installed the Bacula server port, there will probably
> have been some messages about adding entries to /etc/rc.conf to ensure
> the Bacula daemons are run at system startup. Also, there will have been
> information indicating that the configuration files for the daemons will
> have been installed in /usr/local/etc and will need to be edited to suit
> your local setup.
>
> If you want to know what files were installed by the Bacula server port,
> you can use the following command: "pkg_info -L bacula-server-5.0.0_1"
>
> Finally, Dan Langille is listed as the current maintainer of the
> sysutils/bacula-server port. I believe Dan is subscribed to this list
> and sometimes posts.
I am, but it's better to ask the list first.
$ which bconsole
/usr/local/sbin/bconsole
$ pkg_info -W /usr/local/sbin/bconsole
/usr/local/sbin/bconsole was installed by package bacula-client-5.0.1
$
bconsole is part of the client, not part of the server.
--
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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