[Gllug] server logbook program?

[Bruce Richardson]

On 11/1/01, 2:53:00 AM, "Steve Nicholson" 
<steve.nicholson at yoursolutions.com> wrote regarding [Gllug] server logbook 
program?:

> what do you use to log changes on your server?

I use RCS to log changes to the config files on my servers.  Each has a 
script called rcsvi with this in:

#!/bin/bash
#
# rcs-wrapped editor
/usr/bin/co -l $1
${EDITOR:-vi} $1
/usr/bin/rcsdiff -u $1
/usr/bin/ci -u $1

So I edit config files by typing

	rcsvi filename

which loads the file into my preferred editor and when I save and exit it 
shows me the changes I have made and asks for a note to add to the 
revision log.

Since RCS logs the changes to filename in "filename,v" I can quickly find 
which files I have altered and a precise log of the changes to each.  For 
example:

$ rlog /etc/xinetd.conf

RCS file: /etc/RCS/xinetd.conf,v
Working file: /etc/xinetd.conf
head: 1.2
branch:
locks: strict
        root: 1.2
access list:
symbolic names:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.2    locked by: root;
date: 2001/06/24 18:18:27;  author: root;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
Changed auth service
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2001/06/24 18:17:29;  author: root;  state: Exp;
Initial revision


So I haven't made many changes to /etc/xinetd on this computer but I know 
what I did and when.  And using revision control means I can roll back to 
any previous version.

Since you want a remote backup of your entire config for a server, why 
not use CVS?  Just check in the entire /etc tree as a module, then do a 
cvs commit after making any changes.

-- 

Bruce

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