-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 01 May 2019 at 18:43:47 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote: >> Den 2019-05-01 kl. 13:29, skrev Dan Purgert: >>> [...] >> > Or you can use a revision tool. I ran across "rcs" a few years ago, and >> > while it's not something I always use, when I remember, it's pretty >> > good at what it does. >> > >> > Either of these could be wrapped up in a little script -- > > [snipped] > >> > Personally I like vi, but if you don't, replace it with whatever your >> > editor of choice is. The scripts probably have flaws that someone will >> > point out soon (like calling it with no file, or multiple files, etc). > > This can more or less guarantee that you save changes made by editing > the configuration files themselves, but … > [...] > … it fails to capture changes made on your behalf, like typing the > SSID and passphrase into, say, wicd (which puts them into > /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf). So it helps to have a dead simple > method for collecting this information, less you put it off and > then inevitably forget about doing it later.
I rarely use GUIs to do the work for me -- but yes, good point that there are config files hidden behind graphical programs too. :) I don't wifi very much -- just the one laptop leaves the house, but it doesn't matter if/when it has different things, because none of the other wireless devices will see those networks. > > As for finding where the information went, I sometimes use > # find /boot /etc /home /lib /lib64 /var -type f -mmin -1440 -print | > less # one day > but changing 1440 to something more appropriate, like 10 (mins). NICE! I always forget about the 'time' options in find. > > I also maintain a shell script that I run almost immediately after > installing Debian, that performs a load of administrivia like > adding me to groups, changing permissions, etc etc. It actually kicks > off by installing etckeeper and configuring git. I add more items > to it occasionally, and rerun it, so one or two items are protected > by conditionals preventing their getting repeated unnecessarily. > (But it's clunky and slow; for example there's a long list of > .debs to install, so it spews out "already installed' messages.) Haha, yeah, I have one of those myself. Looking at picking up an ansible or puppet reference and getting started with that "soon(tm)". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAlzKzHQACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooH8Hgf9FCmDoNafDD9zMZPee+v4qrSMJLqn/AxSGoM353xeEy/cS9cy3o8gdb5l 7QQcs0rxSYyBaEwGZUuhYaJFqxKveIRu93f/6aRwoU8Yn8w82FbtmuZXtINvqnjZ 2Sm+pmEmhdQXmn9hKVhncnlXIV1U22UVY/KqnC8iT6gCjOstqnRdzciVQ0UWnz45 lJXDjAZcaZPTnlKJRWQeVrAzV35+Afy8s9j/v0WbtjpCTtskFW7rF6+coDmRZoCV ZYMYTESdw9ynP1wvFYGFR6tmU4Fa8xIBuPlvJ5EgMlVH+akfR7VeLLXF+iqbti1T 4gtG297auYlPf5BwXy2ZitHAIo52pg== =dvdw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
