On Saturday 05 September 2009, Craig Barratt wrote: > Davide, > > The basic problem with putting perl expressions in the config file > (to make settings cumulative) is that it isn't compatible with the > CGI config editor.
Yeah I understand that. It's not a big problem for me because I don't use the web interface to edit the configuration anyway. Of course, I'm not saying that this is true for every user, so your objection makes perfect sense. > The config editor will get the intended computed > values, but when it re-writes the config file it will just write the > values, not the original expression. Yes, the way the web interface works currently makes it quite difficult to incorporate my change there. Not being a web interface user, it's also hard for me to suggest something that could be effective without breaking the existing way people use and work with it. Maybe some kind of free-form editor, but then there wouldn't be much difference from using a real editor from the command line. However, I still think that having the ability to do per-host additions to the default config without having to copy over the whole thing would be useful in a number of circumstances, and probably something some user might expect given that the config file is normal Perl code (and evaluated with "do"). How this could be implemented without too much pain, however, I'm not the best person to say. I just did something that "works for me" (tm). I hope that my patch could be useful to some user with similar needs, as long as the code where it must be applied doesn't change too much. If everything else fails, we can always resort to the 'do "/etc/backuppc/config.pl"' trick in the per-host config file. Thank you. -- D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/