Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 17:48, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >> Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Not to be chomping at the bit here, but I guess questions that I have >>> are A) How hard is it likely to be to get this thing built for Windows? >>> I don't expect you to have an answer for that as I suppose Robert does >>> most of the Windows work, but I'd be curious to know. B) If anyone is >>> familiar with this, on Solaris, is there a set of files that one can add >>> to a system that is relatively lightweight to support something like >>> this? Perhaps you have other KDE apps and know how this works. In my >>> experience, most distros want the qt libs package, but then that package >>> wants about 30 others. >>> >>> Thanks for any insights from the peanut gallery. I'd love to start using >>> this, but would pass for the time being if it will require extensive >>> dependency building. >>> >> I'll just reply to the Solaris part. >> >> I typically grab a good deal of this sort of stuff from sunfreeware. I >> try not to get things I don't need, but when you have a chain of >> dependencies, you don't have much choice -- either you want that >> capability or you scrap the whole thing. >> >> I have a directory /usr/local/pkg and a directory /usr/local/src, and I >> keep everything I have installed in one or the other of those. Some >> things you need source, some things it's unnecessary overhead and trouble. >> >> For me, Solaris is for servers. My desktop is Mac OS X. I don't use any >> graphical interface on my servers. I typically have a dozen or more >> terminal windows open with ssh sessions. >> >> If I were going to use a gui for something like bacula, I would want it >> at my desktop, not on the server. So, while my backup servers and >> everything would be on Solaris, I would want a client/server arrangement >> where I could do the administration from a gui on my Mac. Don't know if >> that fits with the current plan, but it seems most logical to me -- >> architecturally more robust and not caught up in the exporting of >> graphical interface through something like X11. From my perspective, >> that's not what a server ought to be spending its time doing. I would >> want the bacula install to be modular enough that I wouldn't have to >> install the graphical stuff on my server. >> > > What is written above is not totally clear to me. The bat is a GUI > application that will run on a large variety of machines Linux, Windows, > Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and others. The communications to the Director > does not use X11 but simple TCP/IP. There is no requirement to have the GUI > installed on the server.
sorry about that, but it sounds like it was clear enough for you to answer: The gui will be a separate module that can be installed on any machine and does not have to be on the server. it appears from my reading that it might use x11; but, based on your comments, that would be local to the machine the gui is running on. I didn't bother continuing to look into the details of gt4 except to see that sunfreeware, at the moment, only has a qt-3.3.4 for solaris. So, unless they update, we would have to go to the source. my concern was that it not have to be on the server and exporting the x11 to your desktop machine, and you've answered that. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
