On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > Has anyone ever standardized a way to do this that will work across more > than a few platforms? I've always thought there should be a way to at > least make a subversion repository holding copies of all of /etc of all > of your machines where similar hosts are branches from a master and > current changes are always checked back in. Then even if you don't use > it to control and push changes you could at least easily view the > changes over time on any host and the difference between any two hosts. Russ just pointed me at this etckeeper.. http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ among other things it includes a plugin for yum so 'yum install' includes a commit.. Very nice touch.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine