On Friday 19 March 2010 15:19:18 Josh Fisher wrote:
> 
> On 3/19/2010 8:36 AM, Moray Henderson wrote:
> > Silver Salonen wrote:
> >    
> >> On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Moray Henderson wrote:
> >>>>          
> >>>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Would there be any interest in a text user interface configuration
> >>>>> program for Bacula on Linux?  We use an in-house system
> >>>>>            
> >>> administration
> >>>        
> >>>>> menu system for our Linux servers, and are considering switching
> >>>>>            
> > our
> >    
> >>>>> backup software to Bacula and writing a text-mode UI for it.  If
> >>>>>            
> > this
> >    
> >>>>> does go ahead, I was wondering if it could be useful in the wider
> >>>>> community.
> >>>>>            
> >>>> Eh, there's bacula-console which does that already? Or did you have
> >>>> something else in mind?
> >>>>          
> >>> As far as I can make out, bacula-console requires X-Windows, which we
> >>> are not running.  I haven't seen anything suggesting it will run on a
> >>> text console.  If it does, it would simplify my job enormously.
> >>>        
> >> To me it sounded like you're looking for smth to change bacula's
> >> configuration
> >> with. So I didn't dare to say anything about bconsole, because this is
> >>      
> > to
> >    
> >> do
> >> some administrative tasks in running server, rather than to configure
> >>      
> > it.
> >    
> >> Configuration is purely text-files based.
> >>      
> > We're really aiming for a menu/forms interface to Bacula: there would be
> > a configuration section for managing the config files, and also
> > hopefully a more friendly front-end to bconsole.
> >
> >    
> 
> Have you looked at Webmin (www.webmin.com)?  Different approach, using a 
> web interface, but is otherwise similar to what you describe, It allows 
> configuring Bacula from a remote workstation with a browser, so doesn't 
> require X on the server.

Does it really makes it possible to alter configuration files? Because that's 
what they're aiming for, no?

--
Silver

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