On 2/27/07, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David & Chuck,
I'm already using RCS, and I've built a somewhat clunky mechanism
around it.
One machine holds the master copies of
- site-wide files (/etc/ntp.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/syslog.conf)
- host-specific files (/etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf) for
each server
At install time, both sets of files are tarred up and copied to the
new server. If there's a conflict, the host-specific files win.
Problem:
It's a good system for installs, but then I update the files on the
working server. I always mean to merge the changes back to the master
copy, but it never quite happens.
Solution:
CVS with a remote repository looks good - updates on the server, and
a central record of all changes. Reinstalling a server should be as
easy as 'cvs co $HOST'.
Problem:
I don't want 6 identical copies of /etc/ntp.conf under version
control, so the site-wide files and host-specific files should be in
separate modules. But they have the same working directory, and this
is where I run into problems with CVS - it's impossible to check them
both out to the same server.
Is there some way to do this with Subversion? Or can a file be shared
by different modules? Or am I going about this all wrong?
Hi Rob,
Well, I'm not quite sure that it will answer all of your questions,
but take a look at Luke Kanies's article called ''Using version
control in system administration''.
It's available from the USENIX website at
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-12/pdfs/kanies.pdf
HTH,
David
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David Robillard
UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA
CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator
Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
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