Bug 556669 - FutureFeature: Bacula needs a README.Fedora
Summary: FutureFeature: Bacula needs a README.Fedora
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bacula
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Simone Caronni
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-19 02:12 UTC by Renich Bon Ciric
Modified: 2012-01-20 15:17 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-01-20 15:17:51 UTC
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Description Renich Bon Ciric 2010-01-19 02:12:40 UTC
Currently, it's very hard to come up with the "Fedoran Way" of configuring Bacula. I'm a newbie with it, but, I think, you could add a fabulous guide in a README.Fedora file; like some other packages have.

The README.Fedora could contain pointers on what to do to get it up and running ASAP. Don't try to make it a supplement for the docs (pdf files)... just add the key notes, like:

- Remember to change the password placeholders to some other password or it won't start while using service (took me 5 hours to figure this out)

I'm in the middle of the configuration so I can't suggest you any more. I'll try tu update this feature request with suggestions of the contents of the README.Fedora file.

Comment 1 Ken Dreyer 2010-10-18 04:34:17 UTC
The "bail out of the init script if passwords are still the default" was a gotcha for me as well. Maybe the init scripts should say something more specific than "Error: Not been configured" ?

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Comment 3 Ken Dreyer 2010-11-04 00:43:44 UTC
This bug applies to the bacula in the EPEL 5 repos. Can someone please change the Version field in this bugzilla entry so it doesn't get auto-closed?

Comment 4 Renich Bon Ciric 2011-02-11 01:55:52 UTC
done

Comment 5 Ken Dreyer 2011-02-11 04:02:59 UTC
Wait, this just changed from EPEL5 to F14... it is a bug in EPEL5.

Comment 6 Jan Görig 2011-02-14 08:22:44 UTC
Changed back to EPEL5.

Comment 7 Renich Bon Ciric 2011-02-14 20:14:38 UTC
why did this change to EPEL5 again? It's a feature request...

Comment 8 Jan Görig 2011-02-15 12:38:47 UTC
Excuse me. I have misunderstood previous comment. Feel free to move it back to Fedora.

Comment 9 Renich Bon Ciric 2011-02-15 22:04:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Excuse me. I have misunderstood previous comment. Feel free to move it back to
> Fedora.

No problem

Comment 10 Honza Horak 2011-08-16 12:54:08 UTC
These are just some points, that should be mentioned in the future README file:
* a user must configure bacula daemons after install (before starting)
* passwords that include "__PASSWORD@@" are not allowed
* only one package from bacula-director-postgresql, bacula-director-mysql, bacula-director-sqlite should be installed at the same time or user must configure alternatives properly (since bacula-dir points to one of the binaries from these packages)

Comment 11 Honza Horak 2011-08-16 13:15:35 UTC
This can be considered as well:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renich/HowTo/Bacula

Comment 12 Simone Caronni 2012-01-20 15:17:51 UTC
Added a README.Fedora file in rawhide(5.2.4).


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