..about Linux, open source and me

I knew that it should be possible use an outgoing ssh connection to login on a machine behind a firewall. But I never got it to work until now. While surfing through the developerworks pages at IBM.com I found an article with a short and clear explanation of how it works. Click the link if you like to know more;

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/?S_TACT=105AGX03&S_CMP=ART#T5

I’m trying to build a nice backup network for my current employer. The software I’m using is Bacula, and Bacula is working fine. But because managers like charts and gui’s I tried installing Bacula web. A big disappointment. It took me almost 1 hour to configure and result is poor. All it does is read from the database and show you how much bytes are transferred.

Here is a screenshot; baculaweb

Because I spend too much time getting it to work, here is my bash history which may be usefull people who still want to try Bacula web.

apt-get dist-upgrade (Debian Stable)
invoke-rc.d bacula-dir restart
apt-get install php-pear php5-mysql
cd /var/www/apache2-default/
download bacula web from the site and untar it into the webroot
vi configure (enter database settings?)
cd /usr/src/
apt-get install dpkg-dev
apt-get source bacula
tar zxvf bacula_1.38.11.orig.tar.gz
./configure –with-bacula=/usr/src/bacula-1.38.11/
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
cd /var/www/apache2-default/bacula-web/
chown -R www-data:www-data templates_c/
chmod -R 777 templates_c/
chmod -R 777 templates

Go to http://yourhost.com/apache2-default/bacula-web/

Enjoy!

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