Problem in seting up bacularis.

baculator

I am new to bacularis and need help setting it up. I am running the wizard and am stuck at the "Step 4 - share the Bacula configuration interface" page. I get this error:

bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:1698 Config error: Keyword "WorkingDirectory" not permitted in this resource. Perhaps you left the trailing brace off of the previous resource. : line 20, col 19 of file /home/peter/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf WorkingDirectory = "/home/peter/bacula/bin/working" 29-Jun 12:22 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:1698 Config error: Keyword "WorkingDirectory" not permitted in this resource. Perhaps you left the trailing brace off of the previous resource. : line 20, col 19 of file /home/peter/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf WorkingDirectory = "/home/peter/bacula/bin/working"

I can run bconsole OK so I think that my bacula installation is running properly. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 and bacula 15.0.3. I have newly installed bacularis which is version 5.0.0

The error says that the keyword WorkingDirectory is not permitted in the "Storage" resource. However bacula-sd says that it is required. What is the solution?

Thanks.

gani

Hello @baculator

Welcome to the Bacularis User Group.

This error comes from bacula-dir (Director) but the config is from bacula-sd (Storage Daemon). It looks that the Bacula JSON tool binaries are wrongly matched to the Bacula configuration files. Could you make sure that you use the following binaries with the following configuration files?

bdirjson => bacula-dir.conf
bsdjson => bacula-sd.conf
bfdjson => bacula-fd.conf
bbconsjson => bconsole.conf

Please let us know if you were able to fix this problem.

Good luck.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

baculator

That solved the problem, thank you. The error messages are very comprehensive but as a new user I can't always get the information that i need from them.

I completed the wizard without error and saved the result. However, when I am at the main menu I get a popup error message with this text:

Error code: 4

Message: Problem with connection to bconsole. Output=>sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper sudo: a password is required, Exitcode=>1

This was a message that I was getting during the wizard but was solved by my entries into the /etc/sudoers.d/bacularis file.

My sudoers file;

Defaults:www-data !requiretty
www-data ALL = (bacula : bacula) NOPASSWD: /home/peter/bacula/bin/bconsole

www-data ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /home/peter/bacula/bacula_15.0.3/bacula-15.0.3/src/dird/bdirjson
www-data ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /home/peter/bacula/bacula_15.0.3/bacula-15.0.3/src/stored/bsdjson
www-data ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /home/peter/bacula/bacula_15.0.3/bacula-15.0.3/src/filed/bfdjson
www-data ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /home/peter/bacula/bacula_15.0.3/bacula-15.0.3/src/console/bbconsjson

Any ideas on this one?

Thanks,
Pete.

gani

Hello Pete ( @baculator ),

baculator That solved the problem, thank you. The error messages are very comprehensive but as a new user I can't always get the information that i need from them.

Good to hear 👍️

To see why this new error appears could you run this command from the root user account?

sudo -u www-data sudo -u bacula -g bacula /home/peter/bacula/bin/bconsole

This should show why your bconsole execution does not work in Bacularis. Normally it should open the bconsole without prompting about pasword.

Your settings tries to execute bconsole with the bacula user and group. This is fine. To have it working I would also propose to check if this user and group are defined in Sudo Runas directives. The Sudo Runas directives were possible to configure in the initial wizard, but now you can check them also here:

[Main menu] => [Page: API Panel] => [log in to API] => [Page: Settings] => [Tab: Console] => [Link: Advanced option]

Do you have there the bacula user and group defined?

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

baculator

In looking at the api.conf file i realized that I pointed to the build directory and not the install directory for the json files. I fixed this and bacularis restarted the wizard. I get this status on the "Add API host" page;

Catalog support Supported
Console support Not supported
Config support Supported

The "not supported" does not seem right.

Thanks,
Pete.

gani

Hello Pete ( @baculator )

Yes, something is wrong with the bconsole settings.

Please look at my previous message above in this thread. I described there how to diagnose this type of error.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)