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5 .TH BACULA\-DIR 8 "6 December 2009" "Kern Sibbald" "Network backup, recovery&verification"
6 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
16 This manual page documents briefly the
20 Bacula's Director Daemon acts as the controller of the
21 network backup system: it is responsible for scheduling and
22 coordinating backups across the network.
26 Specify the configuration file to use.
29 Set debug level to \fInn\fP.
32 Print timestamp in debug output.
35 Run in foreground (for debugging).
38 Set the group/gid to run as.
44 No signals (for debugging).
47 Test the configuration file and report errors.
50 Set the username/uid to run as.
56 Show version and usage of program.
57 .SH TCP-WRAPPERS CONFIGURATION
58 Tcpwrappers looks for the service name of the bacula daemons in
60 , and the service names of these daemons is configured to be different from the
62 The service names are configured to be
63 .B %hostname%-%component%
66 (As defined in the bacula-dir.conf.in file)
69 So the hosts.allow entry has to match
70 .B %hostname%-%component%
71 (servername-dir for example) instead of bacula-%component%
74 This means that if the hosts.allow file has the entry:
78 you will not be able to run bconsole to connect to the local director!
80 The entry would have to read:
84 and this will allow the console to connect to the director.
85 (The process running is bacula-dir.)
91 This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon
93 <jltallon@adv\-solutions.net>.