Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon Mar 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM GMT, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a dozen or so computers around the place, mostly running Debian > > or a derivative (Rasberry Pi OS). > > > > I'm looking for a lightweight way to maintain their root-owned > > configuration files, things like added scripts in /etc/cron.daily, > > postfix configuration, systemd additions, etc. > > If the hosts all had the same files with the same content, I'd just use > rsync. But I presume that this isn't the case. > Ah, but they don't, the whole issue is that some files go to all hosts, some files go to just one host and some files go to two or three hosts. Thus each file needs some sort of metadata to tell which hosts it's for.
-- Chris Green ยท

