System administration

Keep your configuration files in a revision control repository!

[Subversion (category)]

Tracking, auditing and managing your server configuration with Subversion in 10 minutes (http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/03/14/tracking-auditing-and-managing-your-server-configuration-with-subversion-in-10-minutes/). Retrieved on 2007-05-11 11:18.

[rudd-o@amauta2 ~]# svn checkout file:///var/preserve/config/trunk/ /etc
[rudd-o@amauta2 /etc]# svn add *

Tools

http://www.cfengine.org/ Cfengine - an adaptive system configuration management engine

freshmeat.net: Project details for Nwu (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nwu/?branch_id=63516&release_id=222700). Retrieved on 2007-05-11 11:18.

Nwu is a network-wide update system for systems that use APT for software installation and upgrades. It allows an administrator to keep all Linux nodes in a network updated using a simple CLI tool. The deployment relies on deb packages and is very simple.

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