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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:24:09 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        raggen@raggens.net
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes
Message-ID:  <4ad871310903290524h70086066id9e3b16a763a9282@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49CF6781.5070401@telia.com>
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Hi, Roger

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com> wrote:
> For local configuration files there's a tool called rcs that can be used for
> tracking changes and rollback.
>
> It's a part of the FreeBSD base system. Check the man pages for rcs(1) ci(1)
> co(1) rcsdiff(1) and rcsintro(1) - rcsintro(1) is probably where you want to
> start.
>
> It's also available on other *nix systems like AIX, Red Hat, Solaris etc.
>

I received a reply (off-list) mentioning the same tool.  My response was:

I was fairly certain that I would get rcs in a reply.  I haven't used
it too extensively, but it seems similar to cvs / svn -- which I
personally like.  I was more curious if people actually do use rcs for
this purpose.

It appears rcs is the "right tool for the job."

Thanks for the reply!

-- 
Glen Barber



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