Difference between revisions of "Etckeeper"
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+ | *[http://changetrack.sourceforge.net/ changetrack] — a program to automatically monitor changes to a set of files. | ||
*[http://cfengine.com/community CFEngine] ("Community Edition", aka the free version) — a configuration management tool. | *[http://cfengine.com/community CFEngine] ("Community Edition", aka the free version) — a configuration management tool. | ||
*[http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source/ Puppet] (open source version) — a Ruby-based management and automation tool for [[Linux]] system administration. | *[http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source/ Puppet] (open source version) — a Ruby-based management and automation tool for [[Linux]] system administration. |
Latest revision as of 05:56, 8 July 2013
etckeeper
is a collection of tools to let /etc
be stored in a git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt
(and other package managers including yum
and pacman-g2
) to automatically commit changes made to /etc
during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that revison control systems do not normally support, but that is important for /etc
, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow
. It is quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with revision control.
etckeeper
is available in git at git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper, or in gitweb. It is usually packaged in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
See also
- changetrack — a program to automatically monitor changes to a set of files.
- CFEngine ("Community Edition", aka the free version) — a configuration management tool.
- Puppet (open source version) — a Ruby-based management and automation tool for Linux system administration.
- Bcfg2 (pronounced "bee-config") — a configuration management tool written in Python
- git
- svn