Sure, I use cfengine... but it's a chicken and egg game and you have to 
start somewhere.

The setup I describe is when there are no other machines and I'm walking 
in to build something from the ground up.

Cheers,
Harry

On 10/19/2011 09:28 AM, James Cammarata wrote:
> 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.
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