From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 4:24:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22E5037B666 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 04:24:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27595 invoked by uid 100); 3 Nov 2000 12:24:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14850.44665.162326.479051@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:24:25 -0600 (CST) To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: system files and version control In-Reply-To: <20001103150012.M32036@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> References: <127732836@toto.iv> <14849.62966.135429.2396@guru.mired.org> <20001103150012.M32036@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington types: > * Mike Meyer [20001103 02:19]: > =>Archit P Shah types: > =>> 1) Are there good reasons to not put system files (/etc/passwd, /etc/group,...) > =>> under version control? It seems like it would be useful to be able to see the > =>> changes over time. (Not as a security measure, but as a way of doing sanity > =>> checks). > =>I certainly hope not - I keep a lot of them under version control! > =>/etc/password wasn't one of them, because it tends to be edited by > =>tools, not users. But lots of others (/etc/*.conf, /etc/fstab, kernel > =>config files, qmail control files, and so on) are there, and it makes > =>a *lot* of sense to do that. > Sorry guys but i am abit lost on this version control issue. Where do i > get more info? The rcsintro man page is probably a good introduction. Beyond that - well, a more specific question is needed.