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. > Moray. > "To err is human. To purr, feline" > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
