Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-09-01 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, September 01, 2017 01:40:33 AM hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2017-08-31 23:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm interested as well, if you could send a copy to me. > > > > @Ray: And even more so, Ray, after you modify it. > I sent it to this list yesterday. If you missed it I can send it

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv
On 2017-08-31 23:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:39:38 PM ray wrote: >> ...snip >> >> Yes, I would like to work with this. I should be able to modify the perl >> script to also save a tag file to hold the metadata. So now I have a >> reason to learn some perl. >

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:56:44 PM ray wrote: > Thank you. This is an interesting way to store the broken system. It will > be like a junk yard that I can copy out of. > > Partitioning will be a challenge. Currently, this is laptop runs LVM. I > have two groups. The system is on one,

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:39:38 PM ray wrote: > ...snip > > Yes, I would like to work with this. I should be able to modify the perl > script to also save a tag file to hold the metadata. So now I have a > reason to learn some perl. I'm interested as well, if you could send a copy to

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-08-31 04:39, ray wrote: > On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 6:50:06 AM UTC-5, hdv@gmail wrote: >> On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: >>> I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. >>> ...snip >> Hi Ray, >> >> I just returned from a short holiday, so I am a bit late

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-30 Thread ray
On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 9:00:05 AM UTC-5, rhkr...@gmail.com wrote: ...snip... Hi RHKR, Thank you. This is an interesting way to store the broken system. It will be like a junk yard that I can copy out of. Partitioning will be a challenge. Currently, this is laptop runs LVM. I have

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-30 Thread ray
On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 6:50:06 AM UTC-5, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: > > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. > > ...snip > Hi Ray, > > I just returned from a short holiday, so I am a bit late to the party, but... > if > you

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-27 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 25/08/17 22:14, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. I have a plain-text file of notes, which I keep under Mercurial version control. I

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-27 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 26/08/17 16:10, Joe wrote: >> Thank you for the list of solutions. It is interesting that SVN can >> be used with etckeeper. It looks like I should learn git. I have >> used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort >> zone for value. > > Git is very widely used, and on

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-27 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, August 25, 2017 11:14:52 PM ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. > It seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes > they make to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-27 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2017-08-26 05:14, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why. > > It would

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:02:07 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > > Thank you for the list of solutions. It is interesting that SVN can > be used with etckeeper. It looks like I should learn git. I have > used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort > zone for

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 06:02:07AM -0700, ray wrote: > On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 5:10:05 AM UTC-5, Dan Ritter wrote: > ... > > For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores > > changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in > > git or subversion. > > > > You

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread ray
On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 5:10:05 AM UTC-5, Dan Ritter wrote: ... > For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores > changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in > git or subversion. > > You can go a little farther easily by learning git directly. >

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread ray
On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 4:50:06 AM UTC-5, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: ... > I use etckeeper. Of course in tracks changes in /etc (and > subdirectories) only, but it is enough for me. Nemeth, Thank you. I like the idea of using a version control system. Ray

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread ray
On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 11:10:04 PM UTC-5, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > ...> > I won't always go as far as installing and configuring a package > with the config management straight off. Depending on what system I > am working on I will sometimes "cheat" and install it manually with > apt,

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-26 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2017-08-26 05:14 keltezéssel, ray írta: > I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It > seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make > to their systems. > > When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why. > >

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote: > I would really like to hear how others track their changes or suggestions how > I may tack changes. I configure almost everything with configuration management like puppet or ansible. Then the configuration is treated like code, can be

How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-25 Thread ray
I would like to find a way to keep track of changes I make to my system. It seem that I may learn from others on how they keep track of changes they make to their systems. When I make changes, I don't remember where I made changes or why. It would be great to have a log of what changes I've