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?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 22:58

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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.

answered Nov 01 '12 at 22:58

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '12 at 22:57

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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

answered Nov 01 '12 at 22:57

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Some more useful suggestions and ofcourse etckeeper is mentioned too http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29117/how-to-keep-track-of-changes-in-etc – Mutahir Nov 01 '12 at 22:59
thx, that was what I needed – rubo77 Nov 01 '12 at 23:49

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

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