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

2007-06-03 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 /config

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 6/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 new server, and

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

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 least in

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 to

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 in

Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
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 contain the partial directory structure that matches

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

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 first

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, 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 first