On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Harry Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > While maybe not "clonable" when building a brand new cobbler server I > use root's .bash_history to guide me through what I've done. > > For every config file I edit I always issue the command "cp $file > $file-`date -I`" so I have the original to diff against to know exactly > what changes were made. > > Once done building the new cobbler server I take the history file, > remove all of the things that are uneccesary (ls; pwd; etc) and put full > paths on file and commands I've used the write all of this out to our wiki. > > It works pretty well even when you don't get to document for days or > weeks after you've finished the build.
I'd recommend looking into a configuration management system like puppet. You can lay down a consistent configuration very quickly using that. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
