Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

[Daniel Barclay <daniel@dsb.smart.net>]

> From: Alexander Kushnirenko <kushnir@fsgi02.FNAL.GOV>
> ...
> 
> We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same.  It would be 
> useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile  or 
> /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on.  But of course not all the files.
> 
> Reflection of this problem is synchronization of user's .dot-files on 
> different nodes.

Are the machines networked?  If so, why would user have different 
startup files on different nodes?  Don't you have each user's home
directory available from all machines (via NFS-mounted partitions)?


DAniel