[H-GEN] CVS for /etc management

[David Findlay]

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:07 pm, Greg Black wrote this piece of wisdom:
> If you need to ask, you don't want to mix CVS and your /etc
> directory -- learn about it by practising on something much less
> important to the health of your system and then, if you're wise,
> decide to forget CVS altogether[1].

Well I've done a bit with it with source code. What other methods of config 
file control are there? My aims are to be able to easily set up heaps of 
similiar machines(with things like IP addresses and hostnames different) and 
also be able to monitor changes and roll back changes. Thanks,

David

- -- 
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day. If you teach 
them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

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