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Managing Linux configuration files

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The average developer spends more time navigating, learning, and debugging configuration files than you'd expect. But you can save that time -- and loads of energy and frustration -- with one of the tools you probably use every day: your CVS tree. Take these tips on backing up, distributing, and making portable your peskiest Linux™ (and UNIX®) config files.

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Void_Main ·
After 15 years of Open source (12 in Linux) I finally started (about 6 months back) keeping all my code and web development at work in CVS. I don't know why I never used it before because it really is easy to set up and easier to use. I'm not much into graphical utilities but there is a utility out there called "lincvs" that is a really nice graphical front end.

I have never used cvs for my config files (/etc/*) but it makes perfect sense to keep track of them in CVS. Especially if you are always changing things like your Apache configs. I will start doing this on machines that do not get regular backups in other ways (it might not be a bad idea to do it even if the machines ARE backed up). I'll try the scripts out in this article and see how they go. Yes, I know there are other tools but CVS does work well for this sort of stuff too.

Subversion in Konquer?

bubar ·
I saw one distro (it may have been knoppix) had subversion integrated right into the File Manager (running kde must have been konquer). You really can't get much easier than that.

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