i am not worried about the distribution mechanism, which is what your reply 
seemed to
focus on. i was more uncertain about whether its one file or two (or whatever 
else
might work). i interpret your reply as in favour of a seperate file for the 
local config.

(this is not to say that your points aren't well taken, but this is a design 
issue
and the actual delivery/installation issues are subsumed by a "Process"
over which i have no control.)

On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Zack Williams wrote:
> Is there a reason you're not embracing existing configuration management 
> tools (CFEngine, Puppet, etc.).
> 
> If that's overkill, I'd put all the config in network enabled VCS (git or 
> similar), which should work well with your text-based config files, place 
> copies of the repo on every station, then use a script to hard link the 
> config file to it's working location (this way, if someone changes that 
> config file directly in it's working dir, they're also changing the file in 
> the repo).  I'd organize based on server name or DNS information.  
> 
> - Zack 


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