Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-03 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 6/3/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-06-02 21:45, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an update on what I ended up going with. I decided to go > with my idea of moving all configuration files to a common > directory, but with a bit of a change. I created /

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-02 21:45, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an update on what I ended up going with. I decided to go > with my idea of moving all configuration files to a common > directory, but with a bit of a change. I created /config and > under it base/ and user/. Everything in base/

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 6/2/07, Thierry Lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did just think of another thing I could do. What if I create a new > directory on the server, and move all configuration files from their > original location to this directory. I then make then make it into an > svn working directory, and

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Thierry Lacoste
> I did just think of another thing I could do. What if I create a new > directory on the server, and move all configuration files from their > original location to this directory. I then make then make it into an > svn working directory, and in place of the original files put symlinks > that point

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-02 12:43, Thierry Lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have an idea of how to manage symlinks with jailed software? > > Thierry. > > [snip long posts quoted in their entirety] Hi Thierry. Please don't top-post. Your reply belong to the bottom of the text you are replying, at le

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of > all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and > a few other places perhaps). My first thought was to setup a > subv

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Do you have an idea of how to manage symlinks with jailed software? Thierry. On Saturday 02 June 2007 01:35, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On 6/1/07, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/1/07, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I'm currently setting up a

RE: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Murray Taylor
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Maxim Khitrov > Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2007 8:37 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Recommendations for config file revision control > > On 6/1

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 6/1/07, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/07, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of > all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and > a few other places perhaps). My

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Kevin Downey
On 6/1/07, Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and a few other places perhaps). My first thought was to setup a subversion server which would

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On 6/1/07, Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Written by Maxim Khitrov on 06/01/07 14:27>> > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of > all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and > a few other places perhaps). My firs

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Thierry Lacoste
I keep track of my servers config files with CVS. Let's say I want to track a machine named 'box'. On this machine I have a working copy of the cvs module box in /root/box. I have a couple of scripts cvs-add and cvs-ci. 'cvs-add /etc/rc.conf' copies /etc/rc.conf to /root/box/etc/rc.conf and then a