On Dec 25, 2012, at 19:08, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/25/2012 09:36 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz: >>> I am not finding a tool to edit master.cf similar to 'postconf -e' for >>> main.cf. >> It is easy to over-state the importance of such a tool. Most >> master.cf changes involve a one-time append operation for a new >> service, followed by a life time of parameter tweaking in main.cf. > > Agreed. Nice to have, just not anywhere as important as postconf for main.cf. > > Just that I am trying to maintain a log of what changes I am making. I can > have a file of postconf commands to run as a script for rebuilding my > main.cf. For master.cf, I will just have to have notes of the changes I made.
Use version control. Commit with comments. Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and so on. Check out the latest, and move it into place. Or even just a very basic shell script that will save a copy of the current file elsewhere, and then opens the original in your favorite editor. Document your changes with comments. Doesn't need to complicated :-) Cya, Jona
