Re: Restoring /etc
On Saturday 07 August 2004 01:33, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> G'day,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Bucciarelli" <mark@easymailings.com>
> To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 12:17 AM
> Subject: Restoring /etc
>
> > I screwed up my /etc directory bigtime. I wanted to put it under CVS
> > to maintain a history, but didn't realize that CVS does not honor
> > symbolic links. Of course, I didn't backup before rm -rf /etc; cvs co
> > etc. Doh!
>
> I use PRCS, and there are debs. PRCS keeps everything, including empty
> directories. It's propper branch/merge/rename etc support mean I keep
> all my machines in the one project as seperate branches, and I can merge
> changes across between them painlessly. It has some limitations, like no
> network transport (I use rsync instead), but it is ideal for something
> like this; simple, easy to use, reliable, and nothing more.
thanks, that works great. logcheck doesn't like CVS crud.
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