On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-10-03 16:16, Howard Bampton wrote: >> All my NIS maps were historically under RCS (periodically purged by >> hand), with a secondary repository of daily snaps kept in a second >> spot for disaster recovery/"how long has this defect been out there" >> purposes. I'll probably do something similar to the second style for >> my LDAP stuff some day (hard to tell when a field changed/got >> added/whatever). >> > > The sad part is that you consider this unorthodox. > RCS, mercurial, git, etc... are so cheap to use that there is absolutely no > reason not to use them for NIS, DNS, ldif files etc... I mean unless you > hire those type of admins who never ever make even a single mistake. > > Personally I think any machine that needs any tweaking after a rebuild > should have /etc under VC. >
To take it a step further: any machine should have its configuration management tool rules/promises/recipes under VC. Nothing on the machine should be modified directly. (Not always practical, but a nice goal regardless) -- Jesse Becker _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
