[H-GEN] CVS for /etc management

[James Lever]

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Many years ago I worked on a project that did something very similar, though
it wasn't using CVS but rather RCS.

I think all the tools have been mentioned in a thread here already.

RCS and rdist.

The project was statewide management of a series of unix hosts which had
to be consistent throughout so any changes had to be propogated to all
hosts.  This included some files in /etc but regardless, the data was 
critical so the care taken was the same.  We did not have physical access
to these machines but once per year if we were lucky and that was only
for major operating system upgrades.

The implementation was an rdist source tree with some scripts that knew
how to parse that tree to push the files out to the required hosts.  It
worked well and if you needed to do something similar, I would recommend
it, however, it was not a simple solution so you would need to have a
solid understanding of the tools at hand.

cheers,
James

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