From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 14:32:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D9837B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spin.web.net (spin.web.net [192.139.37.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F063F43E6A for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@web.net) Received: by spin.web.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A20FD12E52B; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:32:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:32:53 -0400 From: Rob Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System configuration files under source control Message-ID: <20020731213253.GO22253@web.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Ellis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020731202226.40440.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020731202226.40440.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:22:26PM -0700, Carlos Carnero wrote: > is there anyone maintaining system configuration files > (like /etc/*) with a revision system? (CVS, RCS, etc.) > Care to share experiences? we're using rcs for some things, which works well -- the advantage over cvs is that the locking is simple. ci -u rc.conf # check in first time rcsdiff rc.conf # make sure no one's made unchecked-in changes co -l rc.conf # check out, lock ci -u rc.conf # check in again note that 'ci' without '-u' removes the original file, which is not good. :-) - rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message