On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:51:39PM -0800, Christopher Maujean wrote: > >I was wondering how many people kept their /etc under CVS control. I >haven't found any cons to it so far, but it's not mentioned in any of my >"sysadmin" books. Are there reasons (besides not wanting to take the >extra steps to change a config file, and the potential security hole >generated by not properly configuring the CVS pserver) not to? >
One of the first things that was driven home to me when i started sysadminning at efn was that *all config files must be version controlled*. We have generally used RCS for this purpose, and i've done the same on my personal systems. Putting the entire /etc hierarchy under CVS is an approach i have not tried, but it sounds interesting. It would have to be carefully controlled, as you touch on, but i don't think it's inherently any more dangerous than shell access to the machine where /etc lives... -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
