[Gllug] Perl Question

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:59:02PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
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> 
> I'd agree with the sudo approach (or RBAC where available). It sounds
> like you have a *web* form for this, so you may want your script to also
> make backups of your httpd.conf file; often this has *so* many
> customisation that scripting over it and losing it can be... painfull.

For a backup after each change you can use the RCS's ci command with 
the "-m" options to check httpd.conf into a RCS file. This can also 
record when and why it changed. There's a Perl modules (probably more 
than one) if you don't want to shell out.


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