[Gllug] Terrible weekend

Rich Walker rw at shadow.org.uk
Mon Mar 6 14:31:08 UTC 2006


"Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org> writes:

> Alain Williams wrote:
>> Oh - something *very* important, whenever I make a system change (new bit
>> of s/ware, new user, fix permissions on some file, ...) I record what I did
>> in /etc/Hacks
>
> I used to do that sort of thing, but then I discovered cfengine. Perhaps overkill for one single
> machine, but for a little as 3 or 4 it's worth the effort.
>
> http://www.cfengine.org/

Warning:

cfengine  
(a) becomes addictive very quickly once you get it going
(b) has a longer memory than anyone else on your staff...

cheers, Rich/

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