On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:28 PM, James Harper wrote:

>>
>> I agree.  However, using an optional 'third-party' tool is quite
>> acceptable to all.  I refer here to Fruity and Nagios.  The use
>> of Fruity is optional.  It produces plain text configuration files
>> to be used by Nagios.  That is the approach I would endorse
>> for Bacula should anyone desire to code such a beast.
>>
>
> Maybe a compromise would be to modify the 'include' statement so that
> could include an normal bacula config file (as it is now), an xml  
> file,
> or from a database. If you were doing any of the latter two then your
> main bacula.conf file would just contain a single include line. It  
> might
> also contain some bare essential config stuff so that the same config
> could still be used for disaster recovery, but essentially everything
> would be in your included data.
>
> That way we could all have the configuration mechanism we want without
> it upsetting anyone else. We could also have any combination of the
> above we wanted.
>
> I have never looked closely at the configuration code, but I believe
> that the stuff that actually does the parsing is pretty well  
> contained,
> so I don't know that such a feature would be that intrusive.
>
> Kern: If someone submitted a patch to allow this would you consider
> accepting it? (if not, the point is probably moot :) Is this  
> something a
> director plugin could accomplish?


Kern has made his position on clear text configuration files in the  
past.
He is strongly in favour of them.  I answer on this behalf because he is
not on this list.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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