Problem startin Bacula-BAT

[Alex Huth]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:38:25PM +0200, Cato Myhrhagen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have som problems getting Bacula-Bat working. Here is what i have done so
> far:
> 
> 1. Installed FreeBSD 8.0 rel
> 2. From the ports catalogue i have installed Gnome Lite
> 3. Uppgraded all the ports with CVsup
> 4. Then I installed Bacula 5.0.0.1 rel (with MySQL), altso from the ports
> catalogue.
> 5. Installed BAT 5.0.0.1
> 
> I then tried to start Bat by opening Gnome, starting a teminalvindow and
> typing bat, but got error message (dont have it now becouse it stoped giving
> me this message). I also notised that bacula-dir prosess stopped when i
> tried to start Bat. Then i checked if MySQL was running, but it wasnt even
> installed (i thought it would be installed together with Bacula, but no)
> 
> Therefor i installed MySQL-server 5.0.90, started it and tried to run BAT
> again. The program starts but dosent seem to work. It continues to try to
> connect to the database i think. In the lover left corner of the BAT Gui i
> continues to display the folloving: "Connecting to Direbtor Localhost:9010"
> and then says "Connection fails"
> 
> Is there something i need to configure in BAT og Bacula to get BAT to
> connect correctly?

You have to configure MySQL for Bacula and the conf-files of Bacula.
There are create scripts for MySQL. You should read the very good doc at
bacula.org.

Greetings

Alex