I'm in the process of making couple of adjustments to bacula.spec file. This is the list of changes that I think might be worth incorporating into official bacula.spec file. If Scott and Kern like them, that is ;-)
On Red Hat and look-alikes (rhl*, rhel*, centos4, fedora*), do not build mtx. mtx package is already part of distribution. Instead, put mtx package into "Requires". This resolves conflicts if mtx package is already installed on the system. If for whatever reason Bacula needs it's own version of mtx, I guess the right thing to do would be to build and install mtx in bacula specific location (much like sqlite is built and installed). BTW, newer versions of centos (starting with centos 4.2) and newer fedoras have sqlite package (3.x.x), so same change could be done in that department too? Add defines for dir_daemon_user, sd_daemon_user, and fd_daemon_user, plus couple of lines of code to create users if they don't exist (much like daemon_group). Set dir_daemon_user and sd_daemon_user to bacula, and fd_daemon_user to root. Director doesn't really need to run as root. Storage daemon on most systems doesn't need either. For non-root storage daemon, either the ownership of directory/device can be adjusted on system level, or bacula user can be placed in appropriate group to give it access to storage device(s). Add '--with-*-password' set of options to configure. Storing something that looks like real passwords into default configuration files makes people lazy. Probably nobody really wants to use default passwords from RPM file anyhow. Also it doesn't make any sense. Next time packages are rebuilt, the passwords in them are going to be different anyhow (and not valid, unless all servers and clients are running exactly same OS and are all updated to new version). I used --with-dir-password="Replace with Director's password [`openssl rand -base64 16`]" (and simmilary for other with-*-password options). This would generate config files where it would be obvious what password goes where and obvious that you should change Password lines, with some randomness between builds for lazy people. That's all for now. Let me know if you guys like any of those changes... ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
