On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: ... > so i would like to change configuration remotely, and currently, i > rsync the /etc trees to a local directory, update, then rsync back. > however, this requires a lot of discipline, and is not a viable method > with multiple maintainers. > > CVS is pretty much exactly what i am looking for. i would love to > create a CVS repository each for every one of the remote machines. > then everyone could checkout and commit, and a cron job on the actual > remote machine could bring the local /etc up to date with the CVS > repository every 4 hours or so. > ... > is this possible, and if yes, how? > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like you want cvsup. Uses rsync and CVS. Even promises that it can can do device inodes and hard links. -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix