Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread David Miller
Thanks Barry. Yeah that looks pretty close to what I'm looking for. Funny how that slipped by me. Putting combinations of system audit report config etc don't make for useful google results. And here I should have tried apropos. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread Les Mikesell
David Miller wrote: I wrote dconf in memory of the sysbook project. The aim here was not to create indexed, human-readable documentation, but rather a file that contains all hardware, software and latent configuration. That allows you to backup a system's configuration, diff 2 configurations

[CentOS] system config report

2008-12-29 Thread David Miller
Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how the

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-29 Thread Barry Brimer
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-29 Thread Jim Wildman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Barry Brimer wrote: man sosreport man sysreport ___ I second the recommendation. sos/sysreport will collect all kinds of stuff, generate a static html page for it, then tar it all up. Trivial to wrap a shell script around it