in addition to CVS, lotsa admin types used the simpler RCS for this as well.
I know that the O'Relly "Essential System Administration" has
details on this methodology. The "Red Book" on Unix system administration
(it's purple now, actually) may have some details as well.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:50:46PM +0000, Dustin Puryear wrote:
<em>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<em>>
<em>> > Dustin, I am using the gnome Time Tracking Tool. It is
<em>> > cheesy but documents my time and task. There is a free
<em>> > web based program called Bugzilla that be more of a
<em>> > trouble ticket processor than a tracking tool.
<em>>
<em>> We don't run have Gnome or GTK (or usually even X) installed on our
<em>> servers. Plus, we run SCO OSR5 as well, which may or may not have a Gnome
<em>> port. I was hoping for a very nice console based tool. As I mentioned in
<em>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already have a script (shown below) that does some of
<em>> what I need. However, I was hoping for something that already had a
<em>> built-in log query tool, and maybe would allow me to log all events across
<em>> servers to one central database. Time to start coding apparently.
<em>>
<em>> #!/bin/sh
<em>>
<em>> USERNAME=$1
<em>> COMMENT=$2
<em>> DATE=`date '+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'`
<em>> FILE=/var/log/event.log
<em>>
<em>> if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
<em>> echo "bad arguments"
<em>> echo "usage: log.event username log-entry"
<em>> exit
<em>> fi
<em>>
<em>> awk -F : '{print $1}' /etc/passwd | grep --silent \^$USERNAME\$
<em>> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
<em>> echo "you did not supply a proper username"
<em>> exit
<em>> fi
<em>>
<em>> echo "$DATE $USERNAME $COMMENT" >> $FILE
<em>>
<em>> Regards, Dustin
<em>>
<em>>
<em>> >
<em>> >
<em>> > Bob
<em>> > > Does anyone know of a simple to use and open source (or at least free)
<em>> > > package used to log MIS administrative work for Linux/UNIX? We use
<em>> > > notebooks to log admin work for our UNIX and NT servers, and frankly,
<em>> > > it's a pain. It would be nice to just log actions using a command-line
<em>> > > or web-based tool (preferably both).
<em>> > >
<em>> > > Thanks, Dustin
<em>> > >
<em>> > > --
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<em>> > > This has been widely regarded as a bad move.
<em>> > > - Douglas Adams
<em>> > >
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