[CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Sep 17 19:52:59 UTC 2010
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> My general method is to keep a CVS committed directory somewhere on
> the root filesystem with all configurations. Then I symlink the
> tracked files back to that repository. For example:
>
> /etc/hosts --> /configs/HOSTNAME/etc/hosts
> /etc/syslog.conf --> /configs/HOSTNAME/etc/syslog.conf
>
> Restoring a machine's "identity" is just a simple matter of checking
> out that host's configuration directory then running a script to
> create the symlink.s
I've keyed configuration repositories to HOSTNAME before (and still do
for very small installations), but over the long haul I've found
the service-keyed repository more to my liking. In particular,
cfengine makes it easy to work that way:
/etc/motd -> /r/systems/motd/motd.HOSTNAME
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -> /r/services/openldap/slapd.conf.HOSTNAME
One benefit of this method is that you can have a single file that
works for a whole class of machines, e.g.,
/etc/syslog.conf -> /r/services/syslog/syslog.conf.client-linux
where "client" becomes "server" for syslog servers and "linux"
becomes "macosx" or "sunos" depending on the platform.
As I said, however, a lot of that arrangement is a function of the way
that cfengine works. I'd probably do it differently if I were using a
different tool.
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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