On 3/19/2010 9:31 AM, Silver Salonen wrote:
> 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?
>
>    

Yes, it does alter configuration files. It also acts as a gui interface 
to bconsole for running jobs, status, etc.

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