Maybe a mixture of cvs and .login could do this?
-----Original Message-----
From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 February 2003 13:58
To: debian users
Subject: Configuration centralizing tool sought
Hi all,
I am in search for a tool that does the following.
- According to a list of users, the tool goes and finds a particular
file relative to the user's home directory. Let's say this file is
called foo.rc. If the user list consists of {bob, jane, bill}, then
the tool would go and find
~bob/foo.rc
~jane/foo.rc
~bill/foo.rc
- Before doing anything with the file, the tool then checks directory
somewhere under /var for a previous version of the file, e.g.
/var/spool/tool/bob/foo.rc
/var/spool/tool/jane/foo.rc
/var/spool/tool/bill/foo.rc
* If a previous file is found, the tool generates a diff and
mails it to root.
- The tool then copies the file from the user's homedirectory to
/var/spool/tool/<user>/foo.rc.
That's it. Conceptually very simple, isn't it? I could write a shell
script, although perl might be better. But I want to know if there is
something like that out there already.
Or if someone more capable on perl than I (i.e. > 0) could whip that
out of his/her pocket for my perusal. I'll package it and give credit
in return.
Thanks,
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