On Sunday, April 20, 2014 5:12:45 PM UTC+2, nonrea l wrote: > > Subject: Using Git instead of non-friendly log files on a Linux host? > > I've some experience whit github.com. I'm not a profesional user of Git > and don't know how it work in depth! I was thinking about Git instead of > log files as a better human readable system! I mean when some > administrators are maintaining web APPs on my host, what is the best > approach for controlling their activities? Can git be used for this case? > > What I mean for "controlling": > > - > > A history of administrators activities: Who created/deleted a file? > who made a change in that file? who accessed to host? which IP? when? etc. > - > > A simple restoring system for bad changes: If an admin did something > wrong, restoring to working point be simple and possible. > - > > Things that I don't know git can do? > > You are looking for a configuration management tool<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management>. Many of these actually make use of Git to track source changes:
* Ansible * Salt * Puppet (my personal favorite, although I haven't spent any real time with the others) * Chef * CFEngine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
