On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:37:55AM +0100, Stephan Andreas wrote:

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> The problem is clear, I think.

> But a simple example:

> You are an operator for e.g. a OBSD Firewall.

> Yesterday everything was ok,

> Today a person phoned me and want that I open a tcp port for him. Ok I open.

> Tomorrow, I notice problems that I never have had before. But I have forgotten

> the new open port. Now it is nice to have a ChangeLog.

>

> Because it is faster than restore an Backup.

You have a good idea there, and you are lucky that a solution exists.

Put your config files in cvs (or hg or svn). Last time this came up

someone said they had a cron job to push the latest committed configs

out to the machines periodically, which eventually helps you remember to

check in your changes. ;-)
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