system adm using cvs

[Darrin Chandler]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
> I've done it with SVN.  Its great.

Lots of people do this, and it seems a good enough idea that I'm going
to start. There are times when I *really* wished I'd had version control
on configs!

> _IF_ everyone uses it.  Otherwise it ends up causing some confusion when you
> do a check in and you see changes you didn't make.

Hmm. Too many people wearing captain hats? Changing root password and
fixing sudoers should do the trick...

> David spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> > Has anyone administered a system using cvs?  i.e. all config files are 
> > checked into cvs and re-checked in when a changes is made.  Config files 
> > being, for example, /etc/hosts, httpd.conf, sendmail.cf, etc.
> > 
> > Anyone have any thoughts pro/con to this?  The google, she overwhelms me.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > David
> > -- 
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