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rubo77
Asked: 2012-11-02 14:47:54 +0800 CST

How to keep track of the serverconfiguration: keep entire "/etc" in git

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I want to keep my whole /etc folder in a git repository to track unauthorised changes by intruders and find out mistakes I could have done myself.

What would be the right way to achieve this?

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2 Answers

  1. Look into etckeeper, there have been packages of it for Debian/Ubuntu for some time now, and likely packages are available for other distributions as well.

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  2. Best Answer

    http://aymanh.com/version-control-linux-configuration-files-etc-etckeeper

    Have a look at the above ... I was looking along the same....

    Hope that helps

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