On Mon, 30, Jun, 2008 at 09:54:48AM -0500, John Goerzen spoke thus.. > One consideration to generating the passwords at install time is that we > then can't ship a working installation out of the box (or it would be > considerably complex). bacula-dir needs to know the password to > bacula-sd, bacula-fd, etc. and these services could be installed in any > order. > > There is an entry in README.Debian about this already, but I could also > add notes to the config files themselves. > > I agree that the current situation is not great. I want to get 2.4.0 > out there before mucking around in postinst scripts, but would like to > address this.
I had a similar problem with gridengine and solved it through the use of shared debconf questions. I can look into adding this to the bacula packages if you want (although probably not for at least about 10 days). Mark -- Mark Hymers <mhy at debian dot org> "I never make predictions. I never have and I never will." Tony Blair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]