Interactive configuration of beltane

With the Configure button in the upper left panel, you get access to the intaractive configuration (stored in $HOME/beltanerc The following functions are provided

data_dir

The path to yules data directory (e.g. /var/lib/yule). This is the directory where client file signature databases and client configuration files reside.

pid_file

The path to yules pid file (e.g. /var/run/yule.pid).

html_file

The path to yules HTML status file (e.g. /var/lib/yule/yule.html). This is a file written by the server providing basic status information for the server itself and for the clients known to the server.

com_cp

The path to the beltane_cp helper application.

com_update

The path to the beltane_update helper application.

admin name

Your login name.

admin password

Your login password. If this is blank, the stored password will be kept (rather than set to blank). If exactly 32 chars, the input is assumed to be an MD5 hash already, otherwise the MD5 hash will be computed and stored.

n_messages

(integer) display at most this number of messages (set to 0 to display all messages).

timeout

(seconds) terminate session after this much seconds.

stripdomain

(TRUE/FALSE) yule is configured to strip the domain part from client names.

NoteNOTE
 

Beltane will need the the FQDN of clients in the client database (or the IP number, if clients are known to yule by IP number only). In particular, Beltane will not function properly if you have only the hostname in the client database, and yule is configured to strip the domain. See the Section called The Clients panel> for more information on the client database.

postgres

(TRUE/FALSE) database is PostgreSQL rather than MySQL.

table

The name of the table in the SQL database (default: log).

host

The host where the SQL server runs (for UNIX socket: localhost if MySQL, blank if PostgreSQL).

database

The name of the SQL database (default: samhain).

user

The name of the SQL user.

password

The password of the SQL user.

auto_ack

Unsupported, leave to FALSE.