-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Fontanero wrote: > This is why the truly paranoid just set up /etc/ as a git > repository...
I have recently discovered the packager 'etckeeper': https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/ > etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, > mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other > package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically > commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file > metadata that revison control systems do not normally support, but > that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. > It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use > if you understand the basics of working with revision control. Available directly from the Debian repositories... - --Bob. On 2016-05-31 12:41 AM, El Fontanero wrote: > On 31/05/16 12:34 AM, William Witteman wrote: >> I have always set up networking in a text file - very >> explicitly. I thought that something Gnome-y had wormed its way >> in there and "helped". >> >> However, I have a partial solution - I ran an "ifup eth0", and I >> have a network again. What I wonder now is why isn't that >> happening when I boot up? >> > That is odd. udev is correct, network/interfaces is OK. Perhaps > it's time to look over the logs, or poke through /etc/rc?.d/ and > /etc/init.d to see if anything has gone astray. Again, my > experience of Network Manager, whatever its foibles, has at least > stayed out of the way of whatever I had set up in > network/interfaces. > > This is why the truly paranoid just set up /etc/ as a git > repository... > > This is also what you get when systems have uptimes reaching > hundreds of days, as opposed to needing to reboot every hour or > two. > > Cheers, Mike --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > - -- Bob Jonkman <[email protected]> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAldN0L0ACgkQuRKJsNLM5erWagCgzuVp8Ns8Eydr2S4wZwJnJUEM 9A0AoI7d+pqp+kLdQ0UNOaOg+pxDh8mF =37Ba -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
