On 04.09.2008, at 18:05, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > From what you have written, it is a bit hard to understand what you > are trying > to do. It sounds like you are mixing or confusing the Bacula > database and > the various daemon conf files. There is no direct relation between > the two. > The data that is available in the Bacula conf files for the Director > is only > partially kept in the db and it is not possible to reconstruct > proper conf > files from the database.
I am not dealing the Bacula database. I created a frontend for the Bacula conf files. I am half way through with the generation of Bacula conf files. > > > The syntax and semantics of the conf files is described in a good > amount of > detail in the manual, so it really should not be necessary to read > lib/parse_conf. That's where I hang around a lot lately :) By the way - good job on keeping the docs updated. Bacula is the best documented open source project I encounterd so far. > > > Regards, > > Kern Stefan > > > On Thursday 04 September 2008 16:02:42 Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I am working on a webbased configuration tool for Bacula written in >> Ruby on Rails. As I am at the point where I have to generate a valid >> configuration file and I am a bit clueless I thought I'd ask here for >> some advice. >> Did someone else had a go at generating (and preferably importing) >> Bacula configuration files? I allready looked at lib/parse_conf but >> this didn't help either(it's me lacking proper C skills). So far I >> have the organized the ressources in different database tables and >> named each db field after the directive. This will ease the >> generation >> part as I only have to crawl through the db and fetch the field name >> and it's value. Still I am reluctant to do so as it doesen't feel >> right - so my main question remains - it there any more generic way >> to >> handle such a situation (that would also imply the reverse - also >> parsing config files)? >> >> Thanks >> >> Stefan Sorin Nicolin >> http://nicolinux.org >> >> --- >> Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, >> computer science alumnus, usability >> guesspert and overall big time visionary >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin >> SDK & win >> great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event >> anywhere >> in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel > > Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, computer science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
