Thomas Harold <thomas-li...@nybeta.com> writes:

> On 9/13/2013 9:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Kris Deugau <kdeu...@vianet.ca> writes:
>>
>>>  From man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf:
>>>
>>> report_safe 0
>>
>> Thanks, I see I commented it out for some experiment several mnths
>> ago, and of course, forgot to uncomment.
>>
>
> (chuckles and mutters something about "version control systems")
>
> On a more serious note, this is why we use FSVS to version control
> everything under /etc, /usr/local and a few other things on our
> machines.
>
> - I can do a diff and see everything that I've changed in the config
> file between the original install and now.
>
> - The use of commit comments gives me a place to explain why I was
> making a particular change (in addition to putting a comment into the
> file).
>
> - I have a timeline of all changes that I made to the server.  That
> gives me a range of dates if I need to go back and look at my SSH
> session logs.
>
> - It functions as a rudimentary tripwire, or at least tracks all
> changes in the directories being version controlled.

After spending some time on (What I guess is FSVS
home:http://fsvs.tigris.org/) I still don't know what it does that
makes it any better than several other vcs systems.

The Purpose statement is pretty thin.


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