Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: Tom Limoncelli [mailto:t...@whatexit.org] > > The real issue here is that we manage machines wrong. The fact that > sysadmins say things like, "if I had more than a few machines I'd set > up Puppet/Chef/CfEngine" should be considered a bug. Thanks everyone for your help. Fact is, I'm a c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Will Dennis wrote: > Didn't you have a relatively DevOps type of job at Google, Tom? Only in that Google SRE embodied DevOps principles before they were called DevOps. ...but, again, I can't take credit for inventing any of that. > You may be > the closest thing

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Will Dennis
What I meant was Your name (because it' s your quote, right?) #devops because it has to do with infrastructure as code I was lucky enough to hear about the free Kindle edition giveaway of The Phoenix Project and downloaded it - it's a great read and incorporates all the tenants of Devops (at

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 04/22/2013 12:49 PM, Matthew Barr wrote: On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: I've been waiting for at least a decade now for a Linux distribution to pick one of the CMs out there and just start supporting using said CM as the default way to manage their distribution. It see

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Will Dennis wrote: > All we need is “#devops” and Tom’s name at the end… T-shirts should be > issued J I don't know what Will means. I'm not the poster boy for DevOps. I think it's great but I think I'm an innovator in that area. (By the way... some of the actu

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Mark McCullough wrote: > > On 2013 Apr 22, at 16:36 , Brian Mathis wrote: > > Say what you will about them, but Microsoft realized this was a problem > with INI files a long time ago and migrated to the registry. You may > scoff, and one could say that early *impl

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Mark McCullough
On 2013 Apr 22, at 16:36 , Brian Mathis wrote: > Say what you will about them, but Microsoft realized this was a problem with > INI files a long time ago and migrated to the registry. You may scoff, and > one could say that early *implementations* of the registry left something to > be desire

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Josh Smift
Another problem with vendor support of CM systems is that as a sysadmin, I'd probably rather use Puppet to manage all of my Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Solaris machines, rather than using Puppet for Red Hat, Chef for Ubuntu, and Cfengine for Solaris. That's not an obstacle to vendors picking a default CM

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > > I've been waiting for at least a decade now for a Linux distribution to > pick one of the CMs out there and just > start supporting using said CM as the default way to manage their > distribution. It seems like the commercial distribution

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Oliver Gorwits
On 2013-04-22 20:49, Matthew Barr wrote: Well, RH is starting to focus on Puppet I also noticed the minimal install of SLES includes Puppet. regards, oliver. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Matthew Barr
On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > I've been waiting for at least a decade now for a Linux distribution to pick > one of the CMs out there and just > start supporting using said CM as the default way to manage their > distribution. It seems like the commercial distributions >

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > > > The real issue here is that we manage machines wrong. The fact that > sysadmins say things like, "if I had more than a few machines I'd set > up Puppet/Chef/CfEngine" shou

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Will Dennis
All we need is "#devops" and Tom's name at the end... T-shirts should be issued J From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of unix_fan Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:39 PM Cc: t...@lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensi

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread unix_fan
> > Will Dennis writes: Tom Limoncelli writes: >[snip] >QOTD: >"Editing a file in /etc directly 'by hand' should be an obscure art done >to teach internals or to scare children on Halloween." > >+1 Love ya, Tom. :-)

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Hans van der Made
> The real issue here is that we manage machines wrong. The fact that > sysadmins say things like, "if I had more than a few machines I'd set > up Puppet/Chef/CfEngine" should be considered a bug. We should be > using configuration management as the default. Everything should be > done via CM.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Will Dennis
QOTD: "Editing a file in /etc directly 'by hand' should be an obscure art done to teach internals or to scare children on halloween." -Original Message- From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Tom Limoncelli Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:36

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: >> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] >> On Behalf Of Dave Close >> >> Ned Harvey wrote: >> >> >Question is: What do you use to version control permission sensitive >> >files? >> >> What's th

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Dave Close > > Ned Harvey wrote: > > >Question is: What do you use to version control permission sensitive > >files? > > What's the matter with the old tried-and-true RCS? It keeps both > permissions and t