dir startscript also checks the configuration

Also added a debug message to the dummy libbareoscats library

scripts/bareos-ctl-dir.in

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ fi
 case "$1" in
    start)
       [ -x ${BACDIRBIN}/bareos-dir ] && {
-	  echo "Starting the $Bareos Director daemon"
+	 echo "Starting the $Bareos Director daemon"
 	 OPTIONS=''
 	 if [ "${DIR_USER}" != '' ]; then
 	    OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} -u ${DIR_USER}"
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ case "$1" in
 	    OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} -g ${DIR_GROUP}"
 	 fi
 
+         checkcfg
+         if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+            exit 1
+         fi
+
 	 if [ "x${VALGRIND_DIR}" = "x1" ]; then
 	    valgrind --leak-check=full ${BACDIRBIN}/bareos-dir $2 $3 ${OPTIONS} -v -c ${BACDIRCFG}/bareos-dir.conf
 	 else

scripts/bareos-ctl-funcs

@@ -108,6 +108,21 @@ killproc() {
    return $RC
 }
 
+# Function that checks if the configuration is OK and the Database can be connected
+checkcfg() {
+   echo "Checking Configuration and Database connection ... "
+   if [ ! -z "${DIR_USER}" ]; then
+      su -s /bin/sh ${DIR_USER} -c "${BACDIRBIN}/bareos-dir ${OPTIONS} -f -t -c ${BACDIRCFG}/bareos-dir.conf"
+   else
+      ${BACDIRBIN}/bareos-dir ${OPTIONS} -f -t -c ${BACDIRCFG}/bareos-dir.conf
+   fi
+   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+      return 0
+   else
+      return 1
+   fi
+}
+
 status() {
    pid=""
    # Test syntax.

src/cats/cats_dummy.c

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ B_DB *db_init_database(JCR *jcr,
                        bool need_private)
 {
    Jmsg(jcr, M_FATAL, 0, _("Please replace this dummy libbareoscats library with a proper one.\n"));
-
+   Dmsg0(0, _("Please replace this dummy libbareoscats library with a proper one.\n"));
    return NULL;
 }