On 2016-04-11 22:27, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I'm transitioning some machines to SL7.x from ancient
RHEL 5.x. I am encountering selinux, firewalld, systemd,
and other command-line configured tools, which produce
many little disconnected XML files, rather than the
/etc configuration files I am used to.
I put lots of comments with observations, intent, hints,
helpful webpages, and other useful information in my
config files, and use those comments to get up to speed
years later, when I repair or upgrade those files.
This is difficult to do with the *d command-line tools.
I would expect there would be something like a "dodo"
command, pronounced "dew-dew" (*), an abbreviation for
"documented do". This would help document every sudo,
timed and in context with every other dodo, per
subsystem and in sequence. Syntax errors would be
treated separately, FMM(**) corrections aided.
This seems like an obvious help tool for sysadmin using
the new config-file-free tools, so it probably exists.
What is it called? If it does not exist, would someone
please earn fame and fortune by writing it?
Hi Keith,
Not quite what you're asking for but if you sudo echo some text, then I
think that will end up in the log along with whatever other commands you
run so might serve as a comment?
Cheers, Dave
Keith
(*) dodo pronounced "dew-dew" indicates cognoscenti
who've got their s**t together. Pronounced "doe-doe",
like the extinct flightless bird, indicates a clueless
newbie. I hope this is an additional incentive to
snarky tool writers to write this for me.
Shurely shome mishtake? It should be doh-due :)
