[K12OSN] Re: OT - Upgrading Server - Copying Config Files

[James P. Kinney III]

If you want to go one step further, keep all config files in a tool like
subversion or CVS. Now changes are store and be rolled back if wrong.
Publish to their correct locations as required.

Also look at a tool called puppet. It is useful for maintaining configs
across many machines.

Lastly, keep your eye on a project called Spacewalk. It is the
opensource/GPL version of RedHat Satellite Server. 

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 22:42 +0100, Nils Breunese wrote:
> Carl Keil wrote:
> 
> > I wish I was as smart as the average Linux admin.  That's a really  
> > elegant idea.  Here I am scratching my head and worrying that I  
> > forgot something.  I wish there was a way to do some sort of "cat=>  
> > " symlink.  Where you could literally have a directory with only the  
> > changed bits.
> 
> You could save the original config files and use diff to create files  
> that show you what you changed (and store those diffs as well if you  
> like). Other people like to version their complete /etc directory  
> using something like Subversion.
> 
> Nils Breunese.
> 
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