On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why. > > It would be great to have a log of what changes I've made, where they were > made, how they were made (direct edit, scripted, etc.), why I made them, > references that I used to determine the change, and what was the outcome.
For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in git or subversion. You can go a little farther easily by learning git directly. https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 is a good resource. If you have multiple systems that need to be handled in similar ways, you want to learn an advanced configuration management system like chef, puppet, ansible, salt... -dsr-
