change control on FreeBSD servers

[Russell Jackson]

Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I'm looking for some sort of change control  solution. On several
> Cacti/Nagios servers, I would like to take a snapshot of what I did, back it
> up, and if something changes, run something that shows me what files /
> permissions were changed since I last worked on the server.
> 
> If it were just me, then I would just make copies of the files.  But since
> there are other people in there doing all sorts of weird configs, I want to
> make sure that I document what they did since I last logged in.
> 

If it's plain text, stick everything in CVS/Subversion and use cfengine/puppet/commit-hook
to push changes out.

Cacti uses MySQL for configuration; I'm not sure what to do about that.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson <raj at csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield

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