Re: script for on-disk configuration file backup

2001-05-09 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > The script, below, really has two functions. One is to make a > backup copy of any changed file in /etc. I used "savelog" to > keep the last few revisions of the files. The second function > is to keep /etc a little more tidy

script for on-disk configuration file backup

2001-05-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, A couple days after first installing debian a couple years back, I managed to mess up the passwd file in some way. I was very pleasantly surprised to find a backup version of the file on-line in /var/backups. I was quickly able to un-do whatever it was that I did. There are also backups of d