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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files into 
> version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up via the 
> mechanism above.

Be careful about CVS and symbolic links.  They don't mix.  

Maybe not a big issue for FreeBSD startup scripts, but on Linux this was
a lesson I learned the hard way. ;)

m