I've been experimenting with putting some of /etc on deleuze under version control, using Mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/). I currently have the configuration for all of the daemons that I'm a primary or secondary contact checked in. Mercurial is fairly non-invasive: it puts all of its metadata in a ".hg" directory in the top-level folder of the archive (/etc/.hg, in this case).
The main purpose of this is to see which configuration files have changed (either as a result of an upgrade or that of an admin edit). I'm aware that there is another utility installed on deleuze that monitors changes to files, but this particular approach mirrors the way I do things for my own machine, and seems non-invasive, so I'd like to try it out. Other admins are welcome (though not required -- I can handle changes not checked in using the tool) to try it once I figure out how to set a umask or something similar such that the contents of /etc/.hg are neither world nor group-readable. Any ideas for how to accomplish this? Further instructions will follow once this problem is resolved. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: Lisp, text markup, protocols -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net /` |\ | | | Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, Planner, ErBot, DVC |_] | \| |_| Reclaim your digital rights by eliminating DRM. See http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm for details.
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