They told me they use the open source version of Tripwire ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/).
They won't let me even see the scripts, but said they started with scripts they found on the web. I tried looking, but only found general stuff. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Ron Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid > >wrote: > > > > > This kind of stuff isn't a "project", and you don't > > > need the extra stuff that Fossil (or Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, > > > Subversion, or CVS) provide. I've tracked system files for over a > > > decade with RCS (and before that with SCCS) and see no reason to > > > change. > > > > > > > I disagree. Very often system changes have to be coordinate across > several > > config files. Most distributions have admin tools to take care of this, > but > > don't track the history of the changes. For most uses, this is fine. > > > > Where I work, the IT people already use a tool like Tripwire to monitor > the > > status (including ownership and permissions) of system critical > directories > > and files. Another part of this tool is used to reset the permissions, > > ownership, etc of these files when changes are made. Because of this, > they > > can - and do - use Fossil to track system configuration changes. > > > > By using this combination of distribution provided tools, a few custom > > tools, the Tripwire like tool and Fossil, they actually have more and > > better control of configuration. And they save the company several $10k > per > > year in licensing fees for commercial system management suites. > > What are the chances you could produce a description of how this setup > is used such that it would provide a howto for setting up similar > systems in other people's networks, or convince someone else to write > such a thing? This could make for an excellent article somewhere. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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